“It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it.”
Rob Pike explains the Upspin manifesto
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Rob Pike explains this manifesto in several videos available on YouTube: this video It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it. I hope you do too!
Gopherfest 2017 | Upspin with Rob Pike
50K views · Jun 22, 2017 · 31:18 · 2 HN recommenders · 5 mentions · discussed 2017–2025
Rob Pike presents Upspin at Gopherfest 2017, an experimental framework for naming and sharing files and data securely and uniformly across a global namespace. It is a project written in Go rather than about Go.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as the talk that introduced Upspin, and called fascinating and really good by commenters.
“It's a fascinating talk. I really enjoyed it.”HN comment, 2017
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“This 2017 talk[2] that Rob Pike gave on it is also really good.”
Rob Pike's 2017 talk on Upspin
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If you want to see more on this theme, the Upspin docs[1] are a really interesting read. This 2017 talk[2] that Rob Pike gave on it is also really good. [1] link [2] this video
Upspin as example of encrypted sharing on own terms
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"Encrypt, store, share [files] on your own terms" is elegantly handled by (Rob Pike's) Upspin. Practically: upspinfs fusermounts a cloud storage bucket. (TCO: $0.01/GB/mo.) Transparent public-key crypto. Sharing is built into the protocol. Sane defaults. link this video Building notes on top feels almost too straightforward to monetize. (For that matter: 1password, any number of small-scale B2C things, ...)
Compared to Willow Protocol as similar system
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other commenters have mentioned ipfs, dropbox, syncthing, etc. but this most closely resembles link with the caveat that willow is p2p and upspin uses a centralized key server this video
“This is the talk that introduced Upspin”
Talk that introduced Upspin
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This saddens me because I think the concept behind Upspin is powerful. Is it really that much of a resource drain to drop the key server? I imagine it could run on a $10/mo VPS. This is the talk that introduced Upspin: this video