The
Completely
Distributed Web
The Distributed Web
Community powered web sites that have no central point of failure.
Why?
HTTP Data Erosion
A Library of Alexandria that can't burn down.
Other Problems
- The NSA
- DDoS Attacks
- Political extremism
- Abusive IP laws
- Crypto Wars II
- Expensive court battles
Because it's possible.
Today, centralization is winning.
A distributed web changes this power dynamic.
Servers and clients become
cooperative nodes
The Basic Formula
Cryptography +
Distributed Hash Tables +
Web Mechanics
=
Distributed Web
Cryptography
crash course
Cryptographic hashing
fd1c356468551681944639b8188e23a7ba932add
2b8ea88ea3c249687a5e29367fe5f63758736a72
!=
fd1c356468551681944639b8188e23a7ba932add
Public-Key Cryptography
Public-Key Cryptography
source: @mbauwens
Distributed Hash Table (DHT)
- A distributed key/value database
- No central coordination of network
- Millions of potential nodes
- Fast: 20 hops for 10,000,000 nodes
magnet:?xt=urn:btih:c12fe1c06bba254a9dc9f519b335aa7c1367a88a&dn
The distributed web isn't a single project, or a single philosophy.
| DNS | Namecoin |
| WWW | IPFS, Zeronet |
| Email / Messaging | BitMessage |
| Monetization | Bitcoin, Ethereum |
| Routing | Cjdns, Tor |
| Off The Grid | Wireless Mesh Netorks |
Domain Names:
- A bitcoin fork for domain names
- Completely distributed, no ICANN, no point of failure
- Domains end with .bit (futuretalk.bit)
WWW:
- The permanent web
- Content addressing (hashes, not IP/path)
- Retrieve sites from any node
- Mutable and immutable data
- Ambitious, specially designed DHT, lots of ongoing work
WWW Honorable mention:
- Uses BitTorrent DHT
- Bitcoin keypairs for mutable data
- Integrated Tor
- Data is pinned after viewed
http://website.com/pathname.html
http://1.2.3.4/pathname.html
https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmcKi2ae3uGb1kBg1yBpsuwoVqfmcByNdMiZ2pukxyLWD8
http://127.0.0.1:8080/ipfs/QmcKi2ae3uGb1kBg1yBpsuwoVqfmcByNdMiZ2pukxyLWD8
Query any IPFS node and you receive
the same web site.
ZeroNet + Tor + Namecoin =
distributed, anonymous web site with domain name:
What we need from Web Browsers
Things we need from web browsers:
- Path Origin Security
Less practical things we need from web browsers:
- Namecoin and/or IPFS support built-in
- Integrated Tor (more legit traffic is needed!)
- A Pony
- Strong cryptography is a fact. It's not going away.
- The distributed web is already here and it's getting bigger.
- Will there be mass adoption?
I'm done.
谢谢
thank you