Supporting Wide Scale Secure P2P Search

Posted by timothy on Monday November 24, 2003 @01:03PM from the in-your-drawers-under-your-drawers dept.

Bert690 writes "We all know that it's possible to search the huge expanse of the public web with a single uniform interface (think Google). But what about searching over private files, such as those someone you might not even know has given you access to on some obscure file-sharing network? A recent paper looks at supporting uniform search of distributed private content. The goal is to do it without opening up those who share stuff to lawsuits or other privacy violations, or relying on a central trusted index host."

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Better get your patent application in now... by Curtman · 2003-11-24 15:03 · Score: 3, Informative

Before the patent office discovers Bitzi
Already out there. by __aafkqj3628 · 2003-11-24 21:43 · Score: 3, Informative

Users of the ed2k (edonkey) network, already have several of these indexers.
Services like Jigle send and cache searches from servers and users to give users the latest avalibility and link for a particular file/hash.