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by nicklaf 3932 days ago
From section 3.7.2 of the IPFS paper [1], on IPNS ("Human Friendly Names"):

While IPNS is indeed a way of assigning and reassigning names, it is not very user friendly, as it exposes long hash values as names, which are notoriously hard to remember. These work for URLs, but not for many kinds of offline transmission. Thus, IPFS increases the user-friendliness of IPNS with the following techniques.

[1] https://github.com/ipfs/papers/raw/master/ipfs-cap2pfs/ipfs-...