authentication

[delgyd]

When adding files, it is best to add a simple authentication parameter

[jessicaschilling]

@lidel @rafaelramalho19 or @olizilla -- might you be able to triage? Thank you!

[olizilla]

@delgyd could you give some more information on the problem you are seeing, or feature you are proposing?

[delgyd]

ipfs add -auth password file.txt ( file.txt:123456)
hash：xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
ipfs cat xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -> (asgjewrjwfslf)
ipfs cat -auth password xxxxxxxxxxxxxx --->(123456)

[olizilla]

That looks like a proposal for encrypting files as you add them to IPFS. It's a good idea. The discussion for that is over here ipfs/notes#270

This issues on this repo (https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-desktop) are for discussing bugs and features with the desktop app. Encrypting files / password protecting would need to be supported by the core implementations (go-ipfs, js-ipfs).

To set expectations, we want to support encrypting files, but currently no one is working on it.