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Lose your device, but keep your keys

FROST threshold signatures - or how to keep your private keys safe even if a device gets lost or compromised

Smaller is better

In the upcoming v0.26.0 release, We're doubling down on iroh's networking stack as “what iroh is”, describing everything else as a custom protocol

Closing a QUIC Connection

Closing a QUIC connection without losing any data, using the Quinn API.

Iroh and DAGs

An experimental iroh extension for syncing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs)

Iroh & the Web

Announcing our plans for bringing iroh to the browser

Why We Forked Quinn

Why performance issues in iroh led to a fork of Quinn.

Iroh global node discovery

How to discover iroh nodes by node id, using the Mainline Distributed Hash Table (DHT)

A new direction for iroh

Thus far, Iroh has been built as an implementation of the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) focused on interoperability with Kubo, the reference implementation of IPFS. In the near future Iroh will break interoperability with Kubo, with the goal of moving the IPFS project forward.