Glossary

A set of commonly used terms in the iroh ecosystem.

TermDefinition
BlobA piece of data stored in the iroh network. Blobs are immutable, content-addressed (refer by hash), and opaque.
DocumentA mutable piece of data stored in the iroh network. Documents are content-addressed (refer by hash), and can be read and written to.
DocIDA unique identifier for a document in an iroh network. A docID is the public half of a keyPair.
NodeIDA unique identifier for a node in an iroh network. A nodeId is a keyPair
TicketA single serialized token containing everything needed to kick off an interaction with another node running iroh.