I’m testing and trying out IPFS/IPNS and wanted to find out a use case for needing/using different keys for IPNS.

You may want to be able to publish to the same IPNS address from different machines, each having its own IPFS node: [image] Can multiple nodes share the same peer id? Help Duplicate of node identity is probably a bad idea, but if you reframe the question into “can I publ…

Ok, so that helps explain a few things. The next question is “How” publish to the same IPNS key from multiple boxes? Do you copy one key to the other machine or how does that work?

Yes, exactly that: you copy key to nodes that should have publishing rights. I tested it over HTTP API some time ago: [image] IPNS publishing after generating a key Help Wow, I tested it via HTTP APIs you linked and it seems to… work just fine. rocket Not sure why you h…

Use case for different IPNS Keys

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lidel December 9, 2017, 6:59pm 2

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Use case for different IPNS Keys

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