News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System. Parent comment

Re:Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System by bawolff on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:23AM (#33148385)
Content based addressing is essentially what p2p is. How do you make a p2p service with ephemeral peers without content based addressing?

Also not like this was an ipfs innovation. Magnet links (bit torrent and predessor file sharing p2p), freenet, etc all significantly predate ipfs

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Why the Internet Needs the InterPlanetary File System by fabrice_d on Monday October 10, 2022 @02:31AM (#33148429)
My point is that you don't need p2p to have content based addressing. You "only" need a way to discover a provider for a given hash. p2p is one way, but other network topologies are also interesting to improve performance, for instance mobile clients can benefit from trustless edge gateways.
[ Parent | on HN ]