Glossary
A set of commonly used terms in the iroh ecosystem.
Term | Definition |
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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. |
NodeID | A unique identifier for a node in an iroh network. A nodeId is a keyPair |
Ticket | A single serialized token containing everything needed to kick off an interaction with another node running iroh. |