Folks:
I posted this on Google+, which I'm effectively using as a blog:
https://plus.google.com/108313527900507320366/posts/cMng6kChAAW
I'll paste the content of my essay below. It elicited some keen
observations from Nikita Borisov in the comments on G+, but I guess you'll
have to actually
I think Tahoe-LAFS is the exception to any rule that one should use
AE, and really, the very rare exception. Not the only exception,
though this type of application might be the only exception we want.
A ZFS-like COW filesystem with Merkle hash trees should have
requirements similar to Tahoe's,
On 04/25/2012 10:11 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
It goes like this: suppose you
want to ensure the integrity of a chunk of data. There are at least
two ways to do this (excluding public key digital signatures):
1. the secret-oriented way: you make a MAC tag of the chunk (or
equivalently you
You'd have to ask Darren, but IIRC the design he settled on allows for
unkeyed integrity verification and repair. I too think that's a
critical feature to have even if having it were to mean leaking some
information, such as file length in blocks, and number of files, as I
look at this from an
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:27 PM, Marsh Ray ma...@extendedsubset.com wrote:
On 04/25/2012 10:11 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
2. the verifier-oriented way: you make a secure hash of the chunk, and
make the resulting hash value known to the good guy(s) in an
authenticated way.
Is option 2
Also,
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 10:11 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn zo...@zooko.com wrote:
Hello Nico Williams. Nice to hear from you.
Yes, when David-Sarah Hopwood and I (both Tahoe-LAFS hackers)
participated on the zfs-crypto mailing list with you and others, I
learned about a lot of similarities
On 2012-04-26 1:11 PM, Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
how are we
doing? Are we winning? I don't know about you, but I consider myself
to be primarily a producer of defense technology. I'd like for every
individual on the planet to have confidentiality, data integrity, to
be able to share certain
