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Major Content Delivery Network Introduces Decentralized Content Gateway

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Major U.S.-based content delivery network (CDN) CloudFlare has introduced a new decentralized content gateway via its InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the firm announced in a blog post September 17.

The announcement was made during Cloudflare Crypto Week, a week devoted to the adoption of new cryptography-powered technologies. Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway is the first product to be released as a part of Cloudfare’s Distributed Web Gateway project that plans to “encompass all of [its] efforts” to deploy distributed ledger technology (DLT).

Cloudflare’s IPFS Gateway service is a method of content access from the IPFS that does not require users to install and run any special software. The new gateway hosted on IPFS aims to support “many new highly-reliable and security-enhanced web applications.”

The IPFS is a protocol and network that is designed to enable peer-to-peer storing and sharing of data on a distributed ledger developed by Protocol labs.

By incorporating the IPFS protocol, Cloudflare aims to bring a new decentralized way of accessing information on the Internet that allows users to keep content available regardless of the state of servers that host it, for example if a server is hacked, or shut down as a result of a natural disaster.

While the IPFS intends to “[embrace] a new, decentralized vision of the web” by providing access to “any of the billions of files stored on IPFS” and a tool for building websites hosted on IPFS, it also raises content sensitivity concerns.