Supporting Wide Scale Secure P2P Search

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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What is wrong with PDF?

[nurb432]

Its really not that bad of a format, and is publically available, so most everyone supports both reading and creation..

You arent tied down to any platform/os/application.. Sounds good to me.