How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block

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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