How can users maintain anonymity while serving files on an ipfs node? If you are publishing a file, then it is associated with your unique IP address. You could establish a Virtual Private Network first, but is there much else that could help?

IPFS leaks a fair amount of information: Your peer ID is persistent, by default. IPFS discovers and advertise your addresses. You’d want to run your IPFS node inside a container (or, even better, a VM) that only knows about the VPN interface. The content stored by a node can be used to fingerprint…

How to make IPFS node IP address anonymous?

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How to make IPFS node IP address anonymous?

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