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- This is not a new feature or an enhancement to the Filecoin protocol. If it is, please open an FIP issue.
- This is not brainstorming ideas. If you have an idea you'd like to discuss, please open a new discussion on the Boost forum and select the category as
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. - I have a specific, actionable, and well motivated feature request to propose.
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- boost daemon - storage providers
- boost client
- boost UI
- boost data-transfer
- boost index-provider
- Other
What is the motivation behind this feature request? Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When I retrieve content from boost, I would like a response that I can use to tell someone else "this SP gave me the data I asked for.
currently that isn't true because there's no signature or attestation in the response - so there's no way to:
- correlate the response as accurate for a given request
- associate that the response has actually come from the specific SP
Describe the solution you'd like
We propose to make use of ipfs/specs#431 - the use of metadata
within car responses that is an extension to IPIP-412 that allows for the use of a cbor key-value block to end a booster-http response.
in the final metadata block of a response from boost we propose to include 3 fields:
len
- byte length of the response data (excluding the metadata block)b3h
- Blake3 hash (checksum) of the response data (excluding the metadata block).b3h_sig
- A signature over<len><b3h><request>
using booster-http's libp2p identity.
Describe alternatives you've considered
- this could be implemented as a trailer at the http transport level, but that limits compatibility with clients
- the response can remain un-attested, or only attested in specific cases, but that makes it too easy for an SP to not return correct data or to only return correct data to retrieval testing systems.
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