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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?
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.
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?
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.