IPFS Swarm and IPFS Cluster

Question

Consider 3 IPFS peers A, B and C When peer A establishes the connection with peer B and C (using ipfs swarm connect)

Will it form a cluster with A as leader? If yes, Do we need to manually create secret key? and Who and how the key is managed?

Answer 1

IPFS is a decentralized system, even you establish connection using peer A, at the end they all will end up sharing each other's DHT ( Distribute Hash Table) information and come at the same level. There will not be any leader in a cluster, and all peers will have the same privileges as any other peer in the network.

And right now there is no notion of a secret key in IPFS, all the data in IPFS network is publicly available if you want you have to implement a layer on the top of it and encrypt data before putting it into IPFS.