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IPFS does not, and does not try to, solve the sybil attack, which has been a hard problem in securing decentralised systems for the past decade or so. So using
by infinity0 10y ago
IPFS does not, and does not try to, solve the sybil attack, which has been a hard problem in securing decentralised systems for the past decade or so.
So using "uncensorable" here is talking it up way too much; it will not survive attacks by nation-states. More research is needed in these security topics, and the IPFS guys don't take those seriously enough. At the very best, this is highly-resilient to random errors; malicious attackers, not so much.
- qwertyuiop924 10y agoHowever, in order to censor data, you'd have to have all the nodes connected to the target be Sybils. This would be hard. If not, I think IPFS uses gossip-style protocols to query the rest of the network if your local node links don't have the data. Correct me if I'm wrong.