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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Jun 23, 2010 5:10 pm
... How would I use this on Twitter? Can you give an example?...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Alen Peacock
alenlpeacock
Jun 23, 2010 6:36 pm
Very clever indeed. You have me sold, sir! Alen...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Jun 24, 2010 5:20 pm
Zooko, can operators of storage servers identify whose bundles belong to who?...
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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...
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Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Jun 25, 2010 1:16 am
... How does a client authenticate? Is it a key in the user agent?...
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Sampo Syreeni
ssyreeni
Jun 28, 2010 10:18 pm
Hi. I've for the longest time wondered why the upload and download bandwidths are priced so disproportionately, and why that discrepancy has found its way even...
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Zooko O'Whielacronx
zooko_d
Jun 28, 2010 10:59 pm
... There isn't a notion of client authentication. But there is a notion of *authorization*. You are authorized to access a file or directory by me giving you...
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Wes Felter
wesfelter
Jun 28, 2010 11:09 pm
... DOCSIS has a good reason for being asymmetric; apparently the upstream channel has to be on a low frequency (<42MHz) due to the design of the cable plant,...
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Sampo Syreeni
ssyreeni
Jun 29, 2010 1:49 am
... That is a perfect example of what I called a proximate cause, which fails to be an ultimate one: why precisely can't my side of the cable be just as good...
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Rich Persaud
persaur
Jun 29, 2010 2:27 am
... From http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/2009/10/03/why-up-is-slower-than-down : ".. we download faster than we upload because of economics, not physics. The...
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Robin Upton
badshape6969
Jul 2, 2010 2:30 pm
I've revised the LOOK specification for attaching keys to Webpages, avoiding the problem pointed out by Lucas Gonze. You now sign not the URI itself, but a...
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zookog
Jul 19, 2010 4:22 pm
ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.7.1 The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.7.1 of Tahoe-LAFS,...
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Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Sep 4, 2010 9:35 pm
http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/25698/ "It's MapReduce - the algorithm invented at Google that powers more or less all the massively parallel...
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Zooko O'Whielacronx
zooko_d
Sep 29, 2010 7:01 am
Hey decentralization folks, I hope you don't mind my regular Tahoe-LAFS release announcements. They are intended to come out around four times a year. This one...
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Zooko O'Whielacronx
zooko_d
Nov 29, 2010 7:28 am
ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.1 The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.8.1 of Tahoe-LAFS,...
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zookog
Feb 2, 2011 5:18 pm
ANNOUNCING Tahoe, the Least-Authority File System, v1.8.2 The Tahoe-LAFS team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 1.8.2 of Tahoe-LAFS,...
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Lucas Gonze
lucas_gonze
Feb 9, 2011 7:08 pm
http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-evolution-will-be-socialized The Evolution Will Be Socialized By Douglas Rushkoff 02.07.11, 12:44pm Comments (7) From the...
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Andrew McMeikan
andrewmuck
Feb 10, 2011 1:01 am
... Just a FYI I know bit-coin is all the rage, but I have written PKTP, the Public Key Transaction Processor. While still a work in progress it is ...
