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On Friday 30 August 2002 16:05, J Robert Ray wrote: |
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> Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: |
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> |>Security would be the largest stumbling block of this system. |
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> | Actually, I think a signed package would suffice. MD5 checksum perhaps. |
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> | But, I think the biggest stumbling block is not security, but rather disk |
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> | space and bandwidth. All of these combinations would just become an |
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> | enormous archive. |
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> That's why I proposed freenet, it is a distributed datastore with |
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> p2p-like qualities. A file you put into it is mirrored around to other |
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> freenet servers. If a file isn't requested for a long time, and space |
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> is needed for newer files, it is purged. When you fetch a file from |
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> freenet it can come from any number of servers that have the file. |
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> It's worth checking out if you haven't played with it. |
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We've had a very very lengthy discussion about this topic about a month ago. |
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Maybe you check out the maillist archives before continuing the discussion. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Junior Researcher |
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Mail: pauldv@××××××.nl |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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