Cloudflare發(fā)布了針對IPFS的Gateway:
Cloudflare’s IPFS gateway is simply a cache in front of IPFS.
IPFS gateways are third-party nodes that fetch content from the IPFS network and serve it to you over HTTPS. To use a gateway, you don’t need to download any software or type any code. You simply open up a browser and type in the gateway’s name and the hash of the content you’re looking for, and the gateway will serve the content in your browser.
根據(jù)官方的描述,我大概畫了一個圖

對終端用戶來說,好處還是很明顯的,他們只需要一個瀏覽器就可以查看IFPS上的文件內(nèi)容了,不需要在本地安裝和運行IFPS程序。
以太坊基金會的@peter_szilagyi認(rèn)為這樣破壞了IPFS的去中心化機(jī)制,他的twitter原文是這樣說的:
So, you took a decentralized project and recentralized it. You took untrusted hash-addressed content and hid it behind a trusted operator that can MitM attack it. And this is good how exactly?
Cloudflare確實改善了用戶體驗,這個是值得肯定的。
但是,確實帶來了中心化的問題。首先,用戶需要完全信任Cloudflare,相信它提供的文件內(nèi)容是未經(jīng)篡改的。這變成了一個對第三方的信任:( 對于直接使用瀏覽器訪問的用戶這個問題比較嚴(yán)重,但是如果是專門針對IPFS開發(fā)的應(yīng)用程序,可以通過檢查Cloudflare IPFS Gateway返回文件的Hash來校驗,所以問題不大。其次,Cloudflare IPFS Gateway有單點故障的問題,比如遭受DDos攻擊,又或者被封禁,那么依賴它的App就無法正常工作了。