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Passim Peer to Peer Metadata – F40 Release Party (interesting solution for climate-friendlier fwupd usage) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by boredsquirrel to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Change Proposal

Short: fwupd users download small but in total too much metadata over the internet.

A solution for local distribution is needed. IPFS is too slow, Bittorrent is immediately suspicious on many Networks.

Passim is a new protocol for this purpose, users can opt out, it is secure and the metadata is hashed, and the hashes still downloaded over the internet for verification.

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[–] HumanPerson@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

For people who prefer to read: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Passim_P2P_Metadata