Will it be possible to save files in torrents or IPFS for ten years?

Question

bittorrent

There are files encrypted. Size - up to 1 Gb, but, in reality, less.

I want to be able to store them on the Internet for ten years, securely, and always have access to them, from anywhere in the world. Whereas I need to memorize a long something or have something other than a new clean phone or a new clean Linux machine. Let's say, only the login-password and where these files are located. And software that can be downloaded in the public domain.

Where and how?

If you take some kind of cloud, file hosting, VPS or something like that, then it will be unreliable, because either the provider itself can block my account, or tighten the screws and one day ask for additional. documents, or send some kind of otp to a soap or a phone to which, again one fine day, I may not have access. Or just write like Google "something I don't like the country you're logging in from. So what if the username and password, and even the secret question are correct ... I'll ban you."

In general, you need something reliable, open, preferably, and preferably free. Not from any corporation. And you need to be able to either update these files - overwrite, or simply upload new ones, but forget about the old ones.

I think torrent-s or IPFS or something like that. Will it work? What will be the cons?

Answer 1

Won't work. Even old distributions that are in demand among users on the same rutracker already require support from a group of keepers, and no one will ever store other people's incomprehensible files. Well, you need to understand that the place for storing data is, by definition, not free. Therefore, dreams that someone will just, out of the kindness of their hearts, store your gigabytes are extremely naive.

Answer 2

It would be wise to duplicate the data in all the above services + come up with more exotic ways. For example, make a website where to encode a file on the pages in base64 and cache it in the wayback machine , send it to email , sew it into a video and upload it to youtube , etc.
Torrent can only be used if you have access to a computer that will stay connected to the Internet for 10 years without shutting down and reinstalling the system.

Answer 3

The answer to the question "How to make the most autonomous ...

Answer 4

... and then they go out into the street and discover that the world is not at all what it seemed from a cozy social network ... Nothing
is free . Even "free" software - it either goes in tandem with the same, but paid with a lot of features, or sponsors pay for it. And even more so, there are no free storage systems that do not depend on anyone. Any storage system belongs to someone - the state, a corporation, a private fan group. And this someone who owns it sets the rules for using it as he pleases. ValdikSS gave a wonderful answer. Look, he has his own file-sharing service - will it exist in ten years?

Answer 5

What happened 10 years ago and is still working today? Take the same facebook - what it was then, and what it is now - completely different sites, i.e. inside, they have a different software, it has not lived for 10 years. In general, it is difficult to guess in IT which companies will be alive and which will die in 10 years, the probability that any IT giant known today will die in 10 years is quite high. And there is no need to talk about specific software and its implementation at all, everything changes, the more opensource, free, etc. it is. - the less they care about backward compatibility, so the chances that it will work in the future as it is today are even less.

Answer 6

Cool idea and challenge. You can think about comm. implementation. How much would you rate the interest?
I sometimes throw out blueprints for a reference site, but I have not yet achieved anything realized in such a perspective.
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