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A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the can-you-find-me-now dept.

uler writes "The NY Times has an article about an interesting new open source storage project. Unlike data storage mechanisms today that work 'by making multiple copies of data,' the Cleversafe software takes an 'approach based on dispersing data in encrypted slices.' It's an elegant solution and one that's been a long time coming: the software uses algorithmic techniques known by mathematicians since the 70's. Adi Shamir (of RSA) first wrote of information dispersal is his 1979 paper 'How to Share a Secret (pdf).'"

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  1. Windows ME: Most Secure OS Ever? by nick_davison · · Score: 5, Funny

    Storing data in random locations, often garbled beyond all recognition?

    Clearly Windows ME's memory -l-e-a-k-s- management made it the most secure OS ever. If only they had some way of reconstructing that data when you wanted it back again.

  2. Number 1 of 4 by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    This concept just adds another layer

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  3. aaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's '70s not 70's.

  4. Number 2 of 4 by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    See Comment 15948676

    Of complexity, but also adds

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  5. Number 3 of 4 by Red+Flayer · · Score: 4, Funny

    See Comment 15948695Another layer of inefficiency and

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  6. but. but, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces

    You mean to tell me that all those hours of defragging my HD's on Windows 98 were actually a waste of time?? ;-)

  7. Number 4 of 4 by Red+Flayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    See comment 15948718

    an increased risk of loss of data.

    Burma Shave.

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    "Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
  8. dispersion, section four by thrillseeker · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... the ...

  9. dispersion, section five by thrillseeker · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... novelty.

  10. Re:...like network RAID? by Gary+W.+Longsine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Interesting. Why 11?
    "It's one louder."

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    If you mod me down, I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine.
  11. Re:I don't see whats so new by Nerdfest · · Score: 2, Funny

    Osama?