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Episode 546: Dietrich Ayala on the InterPlanetary File System

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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The Side Effects of the HTTP Web

Right now you don't even need a CloudFlare account to be able to do that. Let's say you install an IPFS node on your desktop computer today or laptop or whatever and you add a file there. You can ask CloudFlare's gateway for it and it will connect to the IPFS public network, which is a distributed hash table. And because the address that you asked for is cryptographically verifiable, it is basically a SHA-256 hash with some added metadata.

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