Authors: Mario Kamenjak, Gordan Davidović
Summary: IPFS is a distributed file system which has a goal to connect all computers into one file system. To achieve that it is using concepts taken from Git and Bittorrent. In the IPFS implementation section it will be talked about how IPFS functions, which data structures it uses and which other technologies it uses. In the problematics of todays web section some problems will be shown that IPFS is trying to fix, and how it fixes them. In the application section it will be shown how to install IPFS on different platforms and some already existing IPFS programs will be shown.This paper analyzes the IPFS implementation, it explains the problems that IPFS is trying to solve with its own application. It looks at already existing applications that use IPFS and it suggests directions for future papers and research.
What I learned: Distributed web technologies, IPFS, digital dark age, data rot, Merkle DAG, Kademlia DHT.
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