An approach to develop a secure and decentralized internet
Shreeyaa Agrawal, Harsh Prakash Jain · 2019
In the modern world, the tech-giants are invading the users' privacy by accumulating their data. This stored data can be misused by the tech-giants or any third-party who gains the access to the data, the recent example being the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica data breach. Another issue with the current scenario is that people have to pay for internet tariff packs with fixed rates, while they use only a limited number of services. The overall concept of net neutrality is also being hampered. In this paper, we propose to develop a decentralized internet using the upcoming technology of Inter-Planetary File System along with IPv6 addressing to address the users' concerns about the data privacy as well as the unjustified internet tariff packs. Inter-Planetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol which builds on a Peer to Peer (P2P) network to create a content-addressable system used for sharing and storing content in a distributed file system. The users can securely access the services provided by various service providers. The system, coupled with blockchain technology, would help in eliminating the Internet Service Providers as well as protect the users' data from theft.