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'The Dropbox for IPFS' // 'Hide in plain sight'

Why do I need horcrux?

horcrux is a client which can hopefully resolve some of the drawbacks IPFS has.

  • Data on IPFS is permanent! So you better be careful of what you put on there
  • Your data is on someone else's computer, how do you secure it?
  • IPFS can get slow and if you're uploading a huge file, it might take a while
  • A teeny tiny change to a huge file? You'll have to upload the entire file again!
What does horcrux do?
  • horcrux uses deduplication to find similar patterns in a file and breaks down the file into those chunks.
  • It then encrypts those chunks and pushes them to IPFS
  • It keeps track of which encrypted chunk belongs to which file.
  • It can then recreate the file based on this info.

In this way:

  • Only chunks with updates will be pushed to IPFS, saving time and bandwidth
  • Everything that's pushed is encrypted

Visual representation working

This project is currently under development!

TODO:

  • Find a more elegant way to generate and download blk and enc files without changing pyrabin
  • Refactor code to be more elegant, refactor variable names to be consistent
  • Introduce a config file which can have the encryption password and other details
  • Reintroduce UI and hook it up with the horcrux via Flask
  • Come up with unit tests
Dependencies and credits

horcrux is written in such a way that all the dependencies it uses can be swapped out easily. However the prototype was made with the help of these fine repos:

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