Re:Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS
by paulogr on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @09:35AM
(#16274103)
The https version is served thru a proxy. This is the way you can get your status page visible to the HTTP world. The gotcha is that anyone on the IPFS network could have a copy of your page and serve them in your behalf.
Re:Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS
by edraferi on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:03AM
(#16274312)
> anyone on the IPFS network could have a copy of your page
Yes, but critically they can't modify it thanks to content addressing [0].
> and serve them in your behalf.
Yes, over IPFS. So anyone with an IPFS client will have a robust way to view your status page. If people want to view it via HTTPS, they hit ipfs.io, which is an IPFS/HTTP gateway. While it's possible for other people to run gateways, I believe ipfs.io is the main one. It could theoretically be a bottleneck.
[0] https://dweb-primer.ipfs.io/avenues-for-access/lessons/power...
I was surprised to see that the page served via IPFS supports HTTPS, do you happen to know how the secret key is securely shared among nodes in the decentralized environment?