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[ARCHIVED] DEPRECATED, please use https://discuss.ipfs.io! Frequently Asked Questions

29 mentions on Hacker News by 22 people: 0 stories, 29 comments · first 2015-04-04 · latest 2019-10-15

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  1. https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/36#issuecomment-140567411 My understanding is that it is not possible for Tor nodes to block (or even know about) what you are accessing.
    comment by dooglius · 2019-10-15 · in OnionShare makes it easy to publish anonymous, uncensorable websites
  2. …differences with dat and IPFS? • https://docs.datproject.org/docs/faq#how-is-dat-different-th... • https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/119
    comment by guessmyname · 2019-07-05 · in How the Dat Protocol Works
  3. …overflow.com/questions/44859200/what-are-the-di... and a good response from IPFS creator jbenet here: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/119#issuecomment-21827839... I think it's possible to view Dat and IPFS as two different layers of a…
    comment by momack2 · 2019-06-13 · in IPFS, Again
  4. This FAQ from github is a helpful summary of human-readable IPFS via IPNS: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/16#issuecomment-232497229
    comment by hanklazard · 2018-09-17 · in Introducing Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway
  5. …[1][2], but no clear winner yet I think, or at least especially no good UI/UX for this yet. [1]: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47 [2]: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-cluster/issues/157 edit: some random service/startup which I just…
    comment by akavel · 2018-07-04 · in Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
  6. …dozens of wallets, some are in-browser. > Also, last I checked, IPFS is not censorship resistant: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/36#issuecomment-140567411 While I didn't mention anything about censorship, I suggest reading that entire…
    comment by shazow · 2018-04-11 · in Dapps
  7. …what hosts the wallet, and wallet API? Also, last I checked, IPFS is not censorship resistant: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/36#issuecomment-140567411
    comment by sargun · 2018-04-11 · in Dapps
  8. …with the Dat project[1]. [0] https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/issues/480#issuecomm... [1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/119#issuecomment-21827839...
    comment by prophesi · 2018-03-05 · in Show HN: Hearth – A Dropbox-like, IPFS-powered personal website publisher
  9. …provides storage for). And it seems a bit silly to rebuild that storage layer from scratch. [1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/83
    comment by amelius · 2017-10-13 · in Peer-to-peer social networking with Rotonde and Beaker
  10. …"the crypto is not ideal"? I was under the impression that there are not yet collisions for SHA-256 https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/22 Only for SHA-1 (which has 160 bit hashes) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHA-1#Attacks
    comment by timthelion · 2017-09-29 · in How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
  11. Isn't IPFS censorable? That's the impression I got from this FAQ entry: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47
    comment by DonbunEf7 · 2017-05-08 · in Uncensorable Wikipedia on IPFS
  12. https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/16
    comment by toomuchtodo · 2016-10-27 · in Wikipedia and Internet Archive partner to fix 1M broken links on Wikipedia
  13. …does IPFS/IPNS solve the DDOS problem? The FAQ entry on this is not very convincing [1]. [1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/171
    comment by niftich · 2016-10-22 · in Internet Attack Spreads, Disrupting Major Websites
  14. …into IPFS in the future but for now, this solution works. There is a issue tracking this here: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/6 Also, when adding files yourself, those files become pinned by the default. Getting files won't pin…
    comment by diggan · 2016-08-31 · in AWS S3 open source alternative written in Go
  15. …IPFS' built-in censorship tools are not meant to be optional, nor are they temporary. https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47 is an FAQ entry written by an IPFS member. Quote: "IPFS has as a strict requirement that content be able to move as…
    comment by mynameislegion · 2016-08-17 · in ZeroNet and IPFS: uncensorable auto-scaling BitTorrent powered websites
  16. …enhancement in question). To date, I'm unaware of an IFPS crawler-and-indexer search engine. [1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/16
    comment by niftich · 2016-08-09 · in Updating Torrents via DHT Mutable Items
  17. …in an easy and secure fashion for regular users... [i] http://ipfs.io/ [f] The faq repository: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues (note a lot of discussion and open questions - ie: not all these have a clear "best answer")
    comment by e12e · 2016-07-17 · in Sandstorm – An open source operating system for personal and private clouds
  18. …So you can use it to share sensitive data, and you can always layer encryption on top. [1] [1] https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47
    comment by warrenpj · 2016-04-16 · in The internet has been stolen from you. Take it back, nonviolently
  19. …https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs go-ipfs codebase: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs And the FAQ: https://github.com/ipfs/faq
    comment by whyrusleeping · 2016-03-23 · in Gx: A package management tool built around IPFS
  20. Take a look at this: "Content Model, or Replication on IPFS" https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47 -- it's a discussion on WHY we had to separate out the replication part. Check out also: - ipfs-cluster - discussion on a tool we'll build…
    comment by _prometheus · 2016-02-19 · in An introduction to IPFS
  21. …to all these questions over at the many repos that we use to work on IPFS. Look around in: - https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues - https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues - https://github.com/ipfs/apps/issues The technical answers exist.…
    comment by _prometheus · 2016-02-19 · in An introduction to IPFS
  22. …## answers to some common questions i've read on this page: - content model / replication: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/47 - how resolution works: https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/48#issuecomment-152917088 - how IPNS / mutable…
    comment by _prometheus · 2016-02-19 · in An introduction to IPFS
  23. https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/28 may help out in understanding where they are going as far as dynamic content, authorization, etc. From just a quick look (I'm not IPFS expert): IPNS is used as the mutable state driving 'dynamic'…
    comment by dsp1234 · 2016-02-19 · in An introduction to IPFS
  24. https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/2
    comment by david_ar · 2015-10-05 · in Why the Internet Needs IPFS
  25. See https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues for comparisons to existing systems. The plan is for IPFS to be able to transparently integrate with the existing web, e.g. https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs.js
    comment by david_ar · 2015-10-05 · in Why the Internet Needs IPFS
  26. https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/18
    comment by david_ar · 2015-09-09 · in Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
  27. …hash of some content, couldn't anyone find all of the ips currently serving it? EDIT: Found this https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues/12
    comment by HeyImAlex · 2015-09-09 · in Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
  28. …and the FAQ: - https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmR7GSQM93Cx5eAg6a6yRzNde1FQv7uL6X1o4k7... - https://ipfs.io/ - https://github.com/ipfs/faq/issues
    comment by _prometheus · 2015-09-09 · in Neocities is implementing IPFS – distributed, permanent web
  29. …on irc.freenode.net -- And we'll be answering questions here too of course. I've just created: https://github.com/ipfs/faq -- if you ask questions there we can build a knowledge base IPFS already works-- you can install it and try it out.…
    comment by _prometheus · 2015-04-04 · in IPFS is a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol