Overview#

Dat Protocol is a Distributed File System Protocol that is is agnostic to the underlying network transport.

Data is stored in a format called SLEEP.

The key properties of the Dat Protocol design are

• Content Integrity - Data and publisher integrity is verified through use of signed hashes of the content. (Merkle Tree)
• Decentralized Mirroring - Users sharing the same Dat automatically discover each other and exchange data in a swarm.
• Network Privacy - Dat provides certain privacy guarantees including End-to-end Encryption.
• Incremental Versioning - Datasets can be efficiently synced, even in real time, to other peers.
• Random Access - Huge file hierarchies can be efficiently traversed remotely.

Dat Protocol links are Ed25519

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Web Blog_blogentry_200918_1

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• [#1] - https://github.com/datprotocol/whitepaper/blob/master/dat-paper.pdf - based on information obtained 2018-09-20-