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@natecull

… Probably a content-addressed store using sha512 or somesuch, which means we need to chunk all that data fabric up into blocks”.

And I haven’t managed to progress my thinking much further. Been watching to see if the IPFS or Nostr people might solve some important groundwork there, but both of those worlds have had their credibility damaged by being sucked into cryptocurrencies.

ERIS is intended to fit into this use-case. A simple spec with a simple privacy feature and 1KiB block size for things like trees of metadata (RDF).

Encoding for Robust Immutable Storage (ERIS)

Tool by Endo Renberg (23 August 2022) ERIS is an encoding of arbitrary content into a set of uniformly sized, encrypted and content-addressed blocks as well as a short identifier that can be encoded as an URN. The content can be reassembled from the blocks only with this identifier. The encoding is defined independent of any storage and transport layer or any specific application. The objectives of ERIS are: Availability Content encoded with ERIS can be easily replicated and cached to …

(I was paid to do some work on ERIS so I have an interest in promoting it.)