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Talk: Authentication & Access Control: How to hide things when there everything is visible

Publication date: 2018-08-02

Topics: dweb, internet archive

August 2nd, 11:30am-11:45am

Decentralized Web Summit 2018

Log Lounge

Speakers: Mitra Ardron , Internet Archive , Lead on Decentralized Web Project

Authentication and access control is tough in an environment where you cannot hide anything. As part of its open-source dweb-objects library, we have developed a library to build authentication of objects. It builds on the API’s in our dweb-transports library to work transparently on top of decentralized databases (such as YJS & GUN) and document stores (such as IPFS).