Agree, a centralized solution is much simpler. I somehow came to the impression you were looking for a decentralized one after first reading David's comment. reading the thread for the second time I understand this isn't a requirement.
My apologies. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 2:47 AM, Tony Arcieri <[email protected]>wrote: > 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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