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How Cloudflare provides tools to help keep IPFS users safe

How Cloudflare provides tools to help keep IPFS users safe

9/30/2021 · Thibault Meunier

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This post introduces IPFS Safemode, an open-source filtering capability for IPFS nodes. It details how IPFS content retrieval works, the challenges of filtering in a P2P network due to content addressing (CIDs) and MerkleDAGs, and provides instructions on how to build and use the go-ipfs client with the safemode feature. The goal is to protect users from threats like phishing and ransomware within the IPFS ecosystem.

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