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Making Data Unvanish

Posted by kdawson on from the sybil-attack dept.

sertsa writes "Earlier this year a group of researchers at the University of Washington came up with a scheme to use peer-to-peer networks to store and, ultimately, to forget the keys for encrypted messages, causing them to 'Vanish.' Now a group from researchers from UT Austin, Princeton, and the University of Michigan has come up with a way to break this approach, by making a single computer appear to be many nodes on the p2p network. 'In our experiments with Unvanish, we have shown that it is possible to make Vanish messages reappear long after they should have disappeared nearly 100 percent of the time...'"

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  1. MKing? by eldavojohn · · Score: 1, Funny

    Now a group from researchers from UT Austin, Princeton, and U Michigan has come up with a way to break this approach, by mking a single computer appear to be many nodes

    I've performed similar procedures. The last time I mortal kombatted my computer, it became several pieces on my floor.

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    My work here is dung.
  2. Re:Vanishing is impossible to get by Intron · · Score: 2, Funny

    archieve (v) To successfully complete an archive.
                  (n) Veronica's boyfriend who works at Legato.

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    Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
  3. Who'dve thought it? by julesh · · Score: 2, Funny

    A DRM scheme that doesn't work? That's totally amazing.