OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by dannyw on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:53PM (#16703226)

OpenBazaar is not like BitTorrent but more like Tor hidden services. As a node, you do not host any content that isn’t yours. When you visit a store, you traverse through the network and communicate directly with the owner of the store.

So, the legal liability of each store rests with the store.

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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by tylersmith on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @07:56PM (#16703253)

This is not quite correct. It does actually work a lot like BitTorrent. When a node loads content it begins to serve it it to other users as well. This cache can be purged by the user.

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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by dexterdog on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @10:28PM (#16704077)

But isn't it fragmented so it is only serving chunks and not the whole thing?

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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by tylersmith on Wednesday March 28, 2018 @10:36PM (#16704100)

Yes, data is fragmented and served in chunks just like Bittorrent. You might only serve small chunks of any given piece of data, and as a downloader you may be downloading different chunks from different peers.

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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by mirimir on Thursday March 29, 2018 @12:20AM (#16704466)

Are the chunks encrypted or obscured? That is, could an adversary with local access to the node determine what object a particular chunk is part of? How about an adversary that can see traffic, but not the node's storage?

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Re:OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS by StavrosK on Thursday March 29, 2018 @06:30AM (#16705904)

They aren't, how would you encrypt them so the local user could read them but someone with local access couldn't? You'd have to ask the user for a password every time the service started up, which would be terrible UX.

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