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Seems like a very important piece of work.

I didn't read very carefully but I don't see many facilities for permissions control other than having a personal folder.

Did I miss that? Do you have plans for permissions support, like groups or read/write access or ACLs etc.?

Or maybe if you just make a simple type of group so that one account could share access to its personal folder with a set of other people/accounts, that would handle most use cases for permissions.

Other than that, seems like this is a great start on solving everyone's problems.



permissions are hard in general.

I think permissions in IPFS should be implemented as encryption + capabilities (see E).

(e.g. grant people access to particular paths by giving them decryption keys. once they have the blocks they can cache them, but you could do revocation by moving the blocks. gets away from the dedup benefits of the merkle dag, but if you _really want to do revocation_ you sort of can.)




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