InterPlanetary File System

InterPlanetary File System
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Original author(s)Juan Benet and Protocol Labs
Developer(s)Protocol Labs
Stable release
0.4.18 / 1 November 2018; 4 months ago (2018-11-01)
Repositorygithub.com/ipfs/ipfs
Written inProtocol implementations: Go (reference implementation), JavaScript, C,[1] Python
Client libraries: Go, Java, JavaScript, Python, Scala, Haskell, Swift, Common Lisp, Rust, Ruby, PHP, C#, Erlang
Operating systemFreeBSD, Linux, macOS, Windows
Available inGo, JavaScript, Python
TypeProtocol, distributed file system, content delivery network
LicenseMIT license
Websiteipfs.io
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InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol and network designed to create a content-addressable, peer-to-peer method of storing and sharing hypermedia in a distributed file system.[2]

IPFS is a peer-to-peer distributed file system that seeks to connect all computing devices with the same system of files. IPFS could be seen as a single BitTorrent swarm, exchanging objects within one Git repository. In other words, IPFS provides a high-throughput, content-addressed block storage model, with content-addressed hyperlinks.[3]

The filesystem can be accessed in a variety of ways, including via FUSE and over HTTP.[3]

The Wikipedia logo has an IPFS hash with the following code: QmRW3V9znzFW9M5FYbitSEvd5dQrPWGvPvgQD6LM22Tv8D. It can be accessed with that hash over HTTP by a public gateway or a local IPFS instance

Notable users

  • IPFS was used to create a mirror of Wikipedia, which allows people living in jurisdictions where Wikipedia is blocked to access the content of Wikipedia.[4] That archived version of Wikipedia is a limited immutable copy that cannot be updated.
  • Filecoin, also inter-related to IPFS and developed by Juan Benet and Protocol Labs, is an IPFS-based cooperative storage cloud.[5]
  • In September 2018, Cloudflare launched an IPFS gateway[6], as well as an IPFS-backed version of their services.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ Agorise (23 October 2017). "c-ipfs: IPFS implementation in C. Why C? Think Bitshares' Stealth backups, OpenWrt routers (decentralize the internet/meshnet!), Android TV, decentralized Media, decentralized websites, decent." Github.com. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  2. ^ Finley, Kurt (20 June 2016). "The Inventors of the Internet Are Trying to Build a Truly Permanent Web". Wired.
  3. ^ a b Allison, Ian (13 October 2016). "Juan Benet of IPFS talks about Filecoin". Ibtimes.co.uk. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  4. ^ Dale, Brady (10 May 2017). "Turkey Can't Block This Copy of Wikipedia". Observer Media. Archived from the original on 18 October 2017. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  5. ^ Johnson, Steven (16 January 2018). "Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble". The New York Times. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  6. ^ "Cloudflare goes InterPlanetary - Introducing Cloudflare's IPFS Gateway". The Cloudflare Blog. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.
  7. ^ "End-to-End Integrity with IPFS". The Cloudflare Blog. 17 September 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2019.

External links

fonte: https://web.archive.org/web/20190311032800/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System