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Interesting, I have two questions: Can you create your private ipfs network? (accessible by anyone, upload only me) If you upload sensitive material to the gl

• diggan 10y ago
  Private networks is something that we're working on (track it here: https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/146 https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/146) but it would be private-private, only access+upload between your nodes. "Accessible by anyone - upload only by you" is not gonna be supported since it doesn't really make sense. If someone has a hash of a file, they can rehost it because they can access it. In IPFS you're not locating files based on WHERE they are but their name rather.
  • ashark 10y ago
    > Private networks is something that we're working on Pretty sure you can already do it by setting up your a node on e.g. a Digitalocean droplet, removing all bootstrap nodes from its config file, and having everyone on the network replace the bootstrap node addresses in their config file with your server's address. Granted that's not a very user-friendly way to do it, but when I tried it it seemed to work.
    • diggan 10y ago
      Yeah, there is two things that is missing for it to be good. First is encryption of content in case something happens to leave the network and secondly rejecting the connections from anyone who is not supposed to connect to you. With your current setup, if/when a node gets connected to someone else (maybe someone connects directly to you), your entire network will connect from that, since the connections will be shared with the peers.