Hello i’m new to IPFS and I have an idea I want to bring to life that utilizes IPFS. I’m a beginner so i won’t front like I know more than anyone else of IPFS. With my intro out of the way, i was wondering. Is it possible to create a private network that interacts with the main IPFS network?

It sounds like what you want is what IPFS already does. When you add a file to IPFS you are given a hash that acts as the address for the file, instead of a URL like “www.foo.bar/file” . The file is not automatically sent out to anyone unless someone asks for your file with the hash. IPFS is meant t…

ok cool thank you for the reply

Works sort of like that, basically what it sounds like you should do a rather than having a private network (which you would only do if you wanted to be 100% sure people didn’t download stuff hosted in certain nodes) instead you should have all your nodes on the main network, you can configure some …

So what about private information that you want to release at will, let’s say a user’s location ? If I use IPFS Cluster on mainnet, to pin individual profiles of users to individual 1 to 1 nodes(meaning each profile has its own node containing the information of the user) , would the user be able t…

Keeping in mind that there’s no way to guarantee someone else doesn’t store past location information that they’ve received, I’d handle it by having your client app only add the location data to IPFS when it needs to be shared. Hypothetically (due to the complexity of a data file hash) no one should…

Could finding a hash be linked to seeing the data packets coming from ones IP?

Well, I hadn’t thought of that, but I suppose it wouldn’t be impossible. Using an encrypted IPFS bridge may solve that problem. It would sort of depend on the level of packet snooping at that point. As far as that goes I think you’d have to ask someone else more familiar with packet analysis and enc…

Sorry for the late reply, do you happen to know of any good windows Guides for setting up IPFS private and cluster networks? I got the IPFS daemon to boot properly, and i also got my swarm key. I just need assistance in bootstraping, and setting up the cluster network!

Aside from what’s at cluster.ipfs.io I don’t know of any. I’d start by searching the forum here, if you’ve already done that then hit up Google. Unfortunately I just don’t think there’s many people doing what you’re trying to do so documentation isn’t extensive.

Any professionals I can get in contact with?

IPFS as a transport layer

Ecosystem and Usage

Akita August 15, 2019, 9:42am 12

That thread might be interesting for you.

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