Content Addressable Archive

Content Addressable Archive (car) is an archive format designed for use with IPFS. Its original purpose was to allow representing multiple files in an IPFS object.

Specifications

 * Version 1 of the specification
 * Version 2 of the specification

Software

 * ipfs-car command-line tool
 * carbides command-line tool, primarily used for chunking files
 * Go module
 * JavaScript library

Examples

 * A basic CAR, provided by the creators of the specification