Tutorial: Merkle Trees and the IPFS DAG

Concepts

These Lessons introduce the following concepts:

  • Cryptographic Hashes and Content Addressability

  • Authenticated Graphs

  • Turning Files into Trees

  • Turning any Data into Trees

  • Publishing hashes on the DHT

  • Getting data from the Peer to Peer Network

Prerequisites

Lessons

  1. Lesson: Turn a File into a Tree of Hashes

  2. Lesson: The Cryptographic Hash

  3. Lesson: Build a Tree of Data in IPFS Using Cryptographic Hashes to Link the Pieces (a Merkle DAG)

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