[Cryptography] IPFS: what's PKI got to do with it?
Henry Baker
hbaker1 at pipeline.com
Thu May 13 21:26:25 EDT 2021
I've read the papers on IPFS, and understand that
somehow a *mutable* binding gets 'published' to the
cloud, and has to be refreshed every 24 hours or so.
But what I can't determine from the papers is where
public key encryption fits in.
Somehow, a PKE pair is involved in *mutable* bindings,
but none of the papers seem to describe this process
in an intelligible way.
I understand fully well how the *immutable* bindings
work; I'm only interested in understanding how the
*mutable* bindings work.
I.e., I fully understand "ipfs://"; what I can't
figure out is "ipns://" and friends.
Thx in advance for any pointers.
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