From df179e03d98f7cbe279f85b450fc7fdd3ec229df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Allen Date: Tue, 19 May 2020 19:25:57 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc(experimental): update pubsub docs --- docs/experimental-features.md | 31 ++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/experimental-features.md b/docs/experimental-features.md index ca4095332..b3af1b4f6 100644 --- a/docs/experimental-features.md +++ b/docs/experimental-features.md @@ -44,35 +44,12 @@ Candidate, disabled by default but will be enabled by default in 0.6.0. run your daemon with the `--enable-pubsub-experiment` flag. Then use the `ipfs pubsub` commands. -### gossipsub - -Gossipsub is a new, experimental routing protocol for pubsub that -should waste less bandwidth than floodsub, the current pubsub -protocol. It's backward compatible with floodsub so enabling this -feature shouldn't break compatibility with existing IPFS nodes. - -You can enable gossipsub via configuration: -`ipfs config Pubsub.Router gossipsub` - -### Message Signing - -As of 0.4.18, go-ipfs signs all pubsub messages by default. For now, it doesn't -*reject* unsigned messages but it will in the future. - -You can turn off message signing (not recommended unless you're using a private -network) by running: -`ipfs config Pubsub.DisableSigning true` - -You can turn on strict signature verification (require that all messages be -signed) by running: -`ipfs config Pubsub.StrictSignatureVerification true` - -(this last option will be set to true by default and eventually removed entirely) +Configuration documentation can be found in [./config.md]() ### Road to being a real feature -- [ ] Needs more people to use and report on how well it works -- [ ] Needs authenticating modes to be implemented -- [ ] needs performance analyses to be done + +- [ ] Needs to not impact peers who don't use pubsub: + https://github.com/libp2p/go-libp2p-pubsub/issues/332 ## Raw Leaves for unixfs files