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ipfs glossary
A collection of descriptions for terms related to ipfs and surrounding techs
Table of Contents
Terms
These terms are not yet defined, but have been suggested as good terms to work on. Please define them if you can!
IPLD, IPNS, IPRS, cbor, starlog, starship, solarnet, DHT (Distributed Hash Table), merkle-dag, Fuse
Terms
Protocol
A set of rules describing how to communicate
Hash Function
A way of generating a unique name for a piece of data
MFS
Mutable filesystem (see also: FUSE)
Random Walk
Querying the DHT for random keys, in order to discover new peers and fill gaps in keyspace
TCP
TCP is a protocol that is used for a huge portion of web traffic. It guarantees that information arrives entirely and in order.
UDP
UDP is a protocol that does not have the same guarantees as TCP. Data sent can go missing, or arrive in the wrong order.
Merkledag
TODO
unixfs
Merkle-dag based data structures for representing unix files, directories, and symlinks
Contribute
Feel free to join in. Just edit this main README file in a PR, or open an issue!
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