Cloudflare发布针对IPFS的Gateway

Cloudflare发布了针对IPFS的Gateway:

Cloudflare’s IPFS gateway is simply a cache in front of IPFS.

IPFS gateways are third-party nodes that fetch content from the IPFS network and serve it to you over HTTPS. To use a gateway, you don’t need to download any software or type any code. You simply open up a browser and type in the gateway’s name and the hash of the content you’re looking for, and the gateway will serve the content in your browser.

根据官方的描述,我大概画了一个图

Cloudflare IPFS Gateway.png

对终端用户来说,好处还是很明显的,他们只需要一个浏览器就可以查看IFPS上的文件内容了,不需要在本地安装和运行IFPS程序。

以太坊基金会的@peter_szilagyi认为这样破坏了IPFS的去中心化机制,他的twitter原文是这样说的:

So, you took a decentralized project and recentralized it. You took untrusted hash-addressed content and hid it behind a trusted operator that can MitM attack it. And this is good how exactly?

Cloudflare确实改善了用户体验,这个是值得肯定的。

但是,确实带来了中心化的问题。首先,用户需要完全信任Cloudflare,相信它提供的文件内容是未经篡改的。这变成了一个对第三方的信任:( 对于直接使用浏览器访问的用户这个问题比较严重,但是如果是专门针对IPFS开发的应用程序,可以通过检查Cloudflare IPFS Gateway返回文件的Hash来校验,所以问题不大。其次,Cloudflare IPFS Gateway有单点故障的问题,比如遭受DDos攻击,又或者被封禁,那么依赖它的App就无法正常工作了。

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