Split & concat via IPFS?

[JayBrown]

Based on ideas from this discussion comment regarding enhanced security.

You can always do it manually outside of ipfs, of course, but maybe there's some need to add a split option to ipfs add, i.e. to split a file at a random point before adding it to the IPFS? E.g.:

ipfs add --split=2 /path/to/testfile
added QmHash1 segment 1 of testfile
added QmHash2 segment 2 of testfile

Alternative options could be --split=25m for 25 MB, with g for GB and so on.

In turn ipfs would then need a concat option, e.g.:

ipfs get concat QmHash1 QmHash2 -o /newpath/to/testfile

or as a new command

ipfs concat QmHash1 QmHash2 -o /newpath/to/testfile

As stated above, the original idea behind it is to increase security, i.e. to obfuscate the original file. It would be useless, though, if there's a public record on when and by which node an object (hash) was originally added to the IPFS.

[Kubuxu]

You can already do it using external tooling. I don't really see a reason to add it to IPFS directly.

Also it doesn't add that much security, it is more of a obscurity than security.