A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday August 21, 2006 @02:51AM 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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But going onward, we see one more thing... by TrisexualPuppy · 2006-08-21 03:29 · Score: -1, Troll

If I'm not mistaken, this was one of the goals with the (now dead?) mnet project.
From what I remember they split up data into multiple pieces, encrypted it and distributed it over a number of nodes, with some redundancy in it. If you know python and are intrested in p2p I'm sure there's a lot to be learned from that project.

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Re:Number 2 of 4 by rjhubs · 2006-08-21 04:01 · Score: -1, Troll

people aren't getting the joke