Glossary¶
- CID
IPFS Content IDentifier.
Identifies content in IPFS. There are two versions of identifiers: CIDv0 (in base58) and CIDv1 (can be represented in base58 or base32).
CIDv0 examples (will always start with Qm):
QmZGqE15BKQqrm6ADmnRyBLQSF1Ht16T9GSmp88vFxZ1Nu QmUvdbNn65yvkxoGU3FBNbZWEpvR72LGiVAY15LYKRkY6k
CIDv1 examples:
zdj7WZ4rubKSt8YvKkLRg92HMU3X7HBhdM7p8azhuyTbe1zrG bafybeidhx5nzmk4n7vj24wjbyx5lcvrxjdrrt5gg7rejzydfixqlwx7ae4
- CIDv0
- IPFS Content IDentifier (version 0)
- CIDv1
- IPFS Content IDentifier (version 1)
- CID upgrade
- The process of converting/upgrading a CIDv0 (CID version 0) to a CIDv1 (CID version 1)
- DAG
Directed Acyclic Graph. From Wikipedia:
In mathematics and computer science, a directed acyclic graph (DAG /ˈdæɡ/), is a finite directed graph with no directed cycles. DAGs can model many different kinds of information.
- dweb
- The distributed web
- galacteek
- Browser for the distributed web
- go-ipfs
- IPFS daemon implementation in Go
- DHT
Distributed Hash Table
From Wikipedia:
A distributed hash table (DHT) is a class of a decentralized distributed system that provides a lookup service similar to a hash table: (key, value) pairs are stored in a DHT, and any participating node can efficiently retrieve the value associated with a given key
- IPFS
InterPlanetary File System
ipns://ipfs.io
- IPFS path
An IPFS path is a full path to an IPFS object. Examples:
/ipfs/bafybeid534xc5jnyi4vgndvw7ngq72q7iadkloqyb5anh34ia7z3k32tw4/galacteek.png /ipns/ipfs.io
galacteek uses full IPFS paths wherever possible to reference objects.
- js-ipfs
- IPFS implementation in Javascript
- Merkle tree
- In cryptography and computer science, a hash tree or Merkle tree is a tree in which every non-leaf node is labelled with the cryptographic hash of the labels or values (in case of leaves) of its child nodes. Hash trees allow efficient and secure verification of the contents of large data structures. Hash trees are a generalization of hash lists and hash chains.
- MFS
Mutable filesystem
The Mutable Filesystem is an IPFS feature that gives the ability to manipulate IPFS objects as if they were part of a unix filesystem . This is used by the filemanager.