ipfs

A few weeks ago when the Safe frontend was compromised, there were a lot of conversations about how IPFS could have solved the issue, but also some potential failure points. One of those was IPFS Gateways. These are hosted IPFS nodes that retrieve content and return it to the person using the gateway, and a weakness is the possibility of someone compromising the gateway and returning ContentXYZ instead of the requested ContentABC. This made me wonder: what if we could prove the CID? 

I'm still in the early exploration phases of this project, but the idea is to run a ZK proof of the CID with the content that is retrieved from IPFS to generate a proof that can be verified by the client. Currently using SP1 by Succinct and it seems to be working 👀 Would love any comments or ideas on this! Repo linked below: 

https://github.com/stevedylandev/cid_proof

Cross posting here in case any ZK experts are interested; I have no idea what I'm doing lol