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Gotcha, thanks for the extra info. So you still have to sign up with the Upspin service to be able to consume shared files? I was under the impression from th
by cyberferret 10y ago
Gotcha, thanks for the extra info. So you still have to sign up with the Upspin service to be able to consume shared files? I was under the impression from the post that it was an 'account free' type of service, in as much as you can publish a URL where people can grab files, but still provided a level of access control, and I was having a hard time reconciling that in my head.
- enneff 10y agoYou need to register your public key with key.upspin.io in order to speak to any Upspin servers, so in that sense it is not "account free". You need to prove to others that you are who you say you are. There is an "all" permission that shares with the world (see https://upspin.io/doc/access_control.md https://upspin.io/doc/access_control.md) but in most cases we expect people will share with a specific set of named users.
- toomuchtodo 10y agoWill Upspin key servers be operated by a non-Google entity so as to allow the global filesystem to continue to function after Google decides to no longer support the project?
- simonh 10y agoWhat happens when that non-Google entity decides to no longer support the project? Now you're dependent on two organisations continuing support instead of just one. It sounds like the project code is all publisgedcthough, so it should be possible to operate a private or alternative upspin network.