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Universities Tapped To Build Secure Net

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the your-voice-is-your-cryptokey dept.

Wes Felter writes "InfoWorld reports that the National Science Foundation (NSF) has enlisted five university computer science departments to develop a secure, decentralized Internet infrastructure. I thought the Internet was already decentralized, so I'm curious about what exactly they're fixing. The article quotes Frans Kaashoek from MIT PDOS, which is working on decentralized software such as Chord."

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  1. freenet? by McCart42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sounds exactly like freenet to me, except with larger university servers and less peers, which could mean either a more stable or less stable system, depending on how you look at it.

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  2. Not like it would matter... by cicatrix1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Once microsoft had products running on it. It'll go from Secure to Broken in... how long does it take to start up IIS?

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