Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS

Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by MichaelMoser123 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:43AM (#25209704)

does anyone know why libgen is still running over http? (But sincerely thanks for the site! it saved me on several occasions!)

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by generationP on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:07AM (#25210673)

They don't want the extra weak spot of certificate revocation being abused against them?

Though I'm not sure how big of an issue this is; sci-hub is using https.

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by _a1xx on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:47PM (#25214129)

Unless they activate HSTS, it shouldn't be a problem. They can always go back to HTTP if they want.

Also, Let's Encrypt doesn't even revoke certificates for malware and phishing sites. [1]

Maybe they're doing this for better caching performance? It makes SSL flood attacks impossible, but is that really worth it?

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by dublinben on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:51AM (#25211244)

One of the new IPFS-backed mirror sites (https://libgen.fun/) is on HTTPS.

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by MichaelMoser123 on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:41PM (#25216384)

Great, however it currently doesnt have the sci-tech filter, and no comics filter too :-(

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by givepause on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:29AM (#25217735)

scitech is there, it's relabeled "Educational."

comics is not a public dataset -- it's privately run and managed, so there are no mirrors for it. I guess someone could scrape it.

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by MichaelMoser123 on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:02AM (#25217917)

thanks!

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by givepause on Thursday November 26, 2020 @02:33AM (#25217762)

I have heard that certain countries ISPs break HTTPS, that might be one reason.

It's hard to believe, but it's certainly happened/happening -- plenty of democratic countries are filtering the internet, like Turkey.

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by warmwaffles on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:46AM (#25210419)

Probably because they don't care enough to add https.

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