Content Addressable Archive

File Format
Name	Content Addressable Archive
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Archiving Content Addressable Archive
Extension(s)	.car

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
• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes