> On Friday, 9 January 2026, at 6:14 PM, Calvin wrote:
>
>> There are many security and privacy holes in venti's design that should be 
>> fixed. Anyone with access to a venti system has, in essence, full 
>> permissions to all data in every file system stored in the system. The only 
>> current practical mitigation is to simply prevent access to the venti in the 
>> first place, and only expose a file system on top of it, such as fossil, but 
>> this can greatly reduce the benefits of venti's deduplication.
>
> Indeed, venti is insecure. But it doesn't do 9p and it is only intended as a 
> backing store for real servers. If the real server (eg. a fossil) is on the 
> same machine, address of 127.1 is a solution. Imho also adresses in 168.x.x.x 
> nets are quite safe. This way it is not exposed outside your realm.

Sorry i was quoting Noam there, I am interested in proposed solutions.

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