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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by georgyo on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @11:15AM (#25210757)
You're almost right. The IPFS gateway nodes also cache the content. IE, they are both storing, hosting, and sharing to other IPFS nodes.
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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by mpfundstein on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:28PM (#25211719)
how can one validate that the cached version is indeed bit equal to the one stored within ipfs?
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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by georgyo on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:39PM (#25211853)
The address of the file is the hash of the file. (Really the hash of the DAG of the file)

So you could validate it if you wanted to. Because the URL _is_ the hash, if you did validate it you could be very sure that it is correct.

If a webserver hosts a file, how can you be sure that file is correct? Sometimes the ship a sums file next to it. At best this can find corruption, but it would not find malicious files.

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Re:Libgen Storage Decentralization on IPFS by openfuture on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:37PM (#25211832)
You hash it, everything is content addressed.
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