On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:44 PM, James A. Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
> That enables search without requiring mutable directory files, but it may > be more difficult to have spam protection. > > The bittorrent solution is to have the directories that map human readable > names to magnet links on regular websites, enabling both search and spam > protection, but this is vulnerable to attack by the state. IMO, search doesn't require a distributed solution, and building a secure distributed search system for encrypted data is extremely hard (but probably doable with secure multiparty computation). Once given access to a "head", individual peers can download and index the associated directory structure, enabling speedy client-side searching. -- Tony Arcieri
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