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Add compensation for compromised gateways
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EricLScace committed Apr 15, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -101,9 +101,7 @@ For example, a compromised writeable gateway user Alice POSTs `balance: 123.45`,
Alice gives Bob this CID.
Bob fetches the content with this CID and cryptographically validates `balance: 0.00`.

The public gateway ipfs.io serves as an independent reference for returned content.

Similarly, guarantee of proper behavior when writing content via a third-party HTTP(S) writable gateway requires a fetch of written content via a native IPFS node or the ipfs.io public gateway.
To partially address this exposure you may wish to use the public gateway ipfs.io as an independent, trusted reference.

## 7. Implementation status

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