Server standard in browser: http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2009/06/16/ Great idea....
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Seth Johnson
differance1
Jul 9, 2009 10:27 pm
Hello all -- anybody in New York who wants to call out the ICANN's "Implementation Recommendation Team" for their attempt to provide tools for abusing...
7039
zookoy2
Aug 3, 2009 2:22 pm
Folks: I'm pitching Tahoe-LAFS as a cloud storage system, and it has commercial use as a cloud storage system, but it is actually a decentralized p2p storage...
7040
Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Aug 3, 2009 3:53 pm
What's the difference between a cloud storage system and a decentralized p2p storage system, Zooko?...
7041
Marc Manthey
marcmancologne
Aug 3, 2009 4:01 pm
... i am just thinking "clowd" is on the net and "decentralised " is on each machine ?...
7042
Zooko O'Whielacronx
zookog
Aug 3, 2009 11:15 pm
... Let's say that it is "cloud" if you are outsourcing the administration, i.e. if the infrastructure, servers, operating systems, networking etc. is being...
7043
Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Aug 4, 2009 12:14 am
I wonder about applications for this feature. The one thing I can think of is items with very large scale political pressures attached. For example, in the US...
7044
Alen Peacock
alenlpeacock
Aug 4, 2009 3:02 am
I think the point of decentralization over cloud services in this setting is reliability in lieu of security. Security should be (and is in tahoe) provided at...
7045
Andy Oram
andyo@...
Sep 11, 2009 6:59 pm
The incident where Twitter banned people at Gov 2.0 has been publicized now. I plan to put up this article in a couple days--if it's basically valid: ...
7046
Marc Manthey
marcmancologne
Sep 11, 2009 7:32 pm
... you talk about something like Laconica ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StatusNet cheers -- Les enfants teribbles - research / deployment Marc Manthey ...
7047
Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Nov 5, 2009 7:38 pm
=== See also -- Project home: http://www.playdar.org/ Source hub: http://github.com/RJ/playdar-core Wired article: http://bit.ly/5lRuj New Scientist:...
7048
Dan Brickley
danbri3
Jan 25, 2010 6:22 pm
... Good question and an interesting thread. I got into this stuff via the digital library scene, where we prematurely ran around saying things like 'these...
7049
Andrew de Andrade
andrew_deand...
Jan 25, 2010 8:19 pm
The two places where we can promote P2P as a design pattern right now is in the WHAT-WG of the W3C and the IETF. The WHAT-WG is the working group responsible...
7050
zookog
Jun 21, 2010 6:24 pm
ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.7.0 The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.7.0 of Tahoe-LAFS,...
7051
zookog
Jun 21, 2010 6:25 pm
ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.7.0 The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.7.0 of Tahoe-LAFS,...
7052
Robin Upton
badshape6969
Jun 23, 2010 2:37 pm
I've been working on a secure personal publishing system to allow people to publish XML and connect to their friends using keys. One issue which I've come...
7053
Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Jun 23, 2010 4:35 pm
Neat idea. "The Links by Owners Of Keys (LOOK) standard is an alternative to signing of online data. Instead it associates cryptographic keys with URIs,...
7054
Robin Upton
badshape6969
Jun 23, 2010 5:07 pm
... It's a static piece of data - you just sign the URL and post it there. Robin...
7055
Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Jun 23, 2010 5:10 pm
... How would I use this on Twitter? Can you give an example?...
7056
zookog
Jun 23, 2010 5:33 pm
Note how I cleverly used redundancy to ensure that this release announcement would not be lost due to inattentive readers. Indeed, it would require you to...
7057
Robin Upton
badshape6969
Jun 23, 2010 6:19 pm
... I've never used Twitter, so I may be wrong, but I think that their URLs are of the form http://twitter.com/USERNAME containing a bunch of recent tweets and...
7058
Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Jun 23, 2010 6:36 pm
But one thing you could do is tweet it, and that would work until the tweet was flushed out of the update stream? ... What if the owner of the encryption key...
7059
Alen Peacock
alenlpeacock
Jun 23, 2010 6:36 pm
Very clever indeed. You have me sold, sir! Alen...
7060
Andrew McMeikan
andrewmuck
Jun 24, 2010 5:10 am
... Hash: SHA1 I am seeking people to participate in live testing of a distributed metal storage and transaction system. Approximately one year of operation of...
7061
Robin Upton
badshape6969
Jun 24, 2010 5:14 pm
... Yes ... This is a very good point, Lucas. How about the following modification? Combine another URI (just to work as an identifier) with the URI: LOOK...
7062
Zooko O'Whielacronx
zookog
Jun 24, 2010 5:16 pm
... Good points, Alen. We distinguish "confidentiality", "integrity", and "reliability". In Tahoe-LAFS, the owners and operators of the storage servers have...
7063
Robin Upton
badshape6969
Jun 24, 2010 5:16 pm
... Yes ... Very good point. How about this modification. Add a URI to the mix, e.g. ... Although adding complexity, it would: 1) Stop cut-and-paste creation...
7064
Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Jun 24, 2010 5:17 pm
FYI, folks, this group is completely moderated. That is because Yahoo's spam control is so bad that the only messages it ever flags as spam are ham. There...
7065
Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Jun 24, 2010 5:20 pm
Zooko, can operators of storage servers identify whose bundles belong to who?...
7066
Zooko O'Whielacronx
zooko_d
Jun 25, 2010 12:55 am
... Yes—storage clients upload shares of ciphertext directly to storage servers and download them directly from storage servers over SSL. Some folks...
