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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by QML on Friday September 29, 2017 @03:50PM (#15368557)
If the Spanish government wants to redirect or modify the contents of the page, then you would get a different hash than the one provided by Catalan officials.
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by euyyn on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:04PM (#15369650)
How do IPFS links work, such that modification of what they point to modifies the hash of the document where the link is?
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by drabiega on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:20PM (#15369739)
IPFS is immutable and hash addressed, so 'modifying' something yields a new address. Existing documents that point to the modified thing will still point to the old version, unless their links change as well. Effectively, sharing a hash address to the main page is sharing a snapshot of the site.
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by mcguire on Saturday September 30, 2017 @10:51AM (#15373086)
It's essentially the same technique as git.
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by acover on Friday September 29, 2017 @06:14PM (#15369706)
There are two types of links in ipfs. Static content that works by hash of the content. Dynamic content that is signed by the owner of the bucket.... I think I haven't looked at it for months
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Re:How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's ... by tylersmith on Friday September 29, 2017 @08:40PM (#15370447)
You use IPNS to give a static name and change the root hash of that name when you update content.
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