"A Distributed File System for Secure P2P Applications" by Brooklyn Zelenka (Strange Loop 2022)

The popularity of tools like Dropbox, Google Docs, and Figma has normalized collaborative software that empowers us to effortlessly manage and manipulate our data across multiple devices. This kind of multiplayer software is here to stay, but it does bring with it an implicit trust, dependence, and platform risk in the services that hold our data. To address these concerns, we've built the WebNative File System (WNFS) to extend these capabilities to a user-centric architecture.

WNFS is a novel, content-addressed, persistent, encrypted forest of blocks. To support multiuser and local-first uses cases, it forms a CRDT over encrypted data, even when the agent only has read or write access to a specific subdirectory or single file. This file system has been used to build decentralized applications, including multiuser file managers, music players, and note taking apps.

Brooklyn Zelenka
CTO @ Fission
@expede

Brooklyn is the cofounder and CTO at Fission, where her team is building the next generation of web dev tools for the future of computing on the edge – leveling the playing field for teams of all sizes. She founded the Vancouver Functional Programming Meetup, and is the author of several Elixir libraries including Witchcraft & Exceptional. She was previously an Ethereum Core Developer, where she focused on improving the EVM. She continues to push the broader web and edge space forward with standards like UCAN auth, the WebNative File System, and the Dialog distributed database.

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