Glossary
A set of commonly used terms in the iroh ecosystem.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Blob | A piece of data stored in the iroh network. Blobs are immutable, content-addressed (refer by hash), and opaque. |
| Document | A mutable piece of data stored in the iroh network. Documents are content-addressed (refer by hash), and can be read and written to. |
| DocID | A unique identifier for a document in an iroh network. A docID is the public half of a keyPair. |
| EndpointID | A unique identifier for an endpoint in an iroh network. An EndpointId is a keyPair |
| Ticket | A single serialized token containing everything needed to kick off an interaction with another endpoint running iroh. |