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document pubsub message signing
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Stebalien authored Oct 27, 2018
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You can enable gossipsub via configuration:
`ipfs config Pubsub.Router gossipsub`

### Message Signing

As of 0.4.18, go-ipfs signs all pubsub messages by default. For now, it doesn't
*reject* unsigned messages but it will in the future.

You can turn off message signing (not recommended unless you're using a private
network) by running:
`ipfs config Pubsub.DisableSigning true`

You can turn on strict signature verification (require that all messages be
signed) by running:
`ipfs config Pubsub.StrictSignatureVerification true`

(this last option will be set to true by default and eventually removed entirely)

### Road to being a real feature
- [ ] Needs more people to use and report on how well it works
- [ ] Needs authenticated modes to be implemented
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