Following this question by @MarkusTeufelberger I would suggest to consider to deprecate the built-in mechanism for metadata in favour of standard RFC 5854 (Metalink). I would suggest to add an additional hash function which would be utilized only for singular files, and consequently allow the util…

MD5 (and Metalink) in addition to CID1 (built-in metadata)

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5 posts were split to a new topic: IPNS over DHT and PubSub

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How is IPFS different than early 2000 P2P systems? Help multihash , kademlia , g1	1	45	December 24, 2024
Changing data in added content Help js-ipfs	4	1386	August 6, 2020
CID concept is broken Ecosystem and Usage	68	4291	February 2, 2022
How can I update metadata after uploading on IPFS	11	3380	February 11, 2022
Is there a way to communicate that 2 different addresses point to the same object? Help	2	418	December 24, 2024