Take a look at the following paper: @inproceedings{fileteller, author = {John Ioannidis and Sotiris Ioannidis and Angelos Keromytis and Vass ilis Prevelakis}, title = {{Fileteller: Paying and Getting Paid for File Storage}}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Financial C ryptography}, month = {March}, year = {2002} } On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:42:28PM -0500, R. A. Hettinga wrote:

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Status: RO Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:36:40 -0800 To: usual@espace.net From: Fearghas McKay <fm@espace.net> Subject: Fwd: HiveCache - P2P Backups Reply-To: "Usual People List" <usual@espace.net> Sender: <usual@espace.net>

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From: Peter Gradwell <peter@gradwell.com> (by way of Fearghas McKay <fm-news123@st-kilda.org>) To: fm@espace.net Subject: HiveCache - P2P Backups Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 14:04:35 -0800

Hello

Apologies for the intrusion. As well has running an ISP, I have an interest in Grid Computing systems and micro accounting architectures.

As part of the interest, I would like to deploy a product called HiveCache (www.hivecache.com) to my customer base, and others interested.

HiveCache is a p2p backup system where by you define an amount of disk space available on your machine (which is connected via broadband of course!) and vice versa, your files get split up, encrypted and then stored on everyone elses' disk space.

HiveCache does all sorts of clever things, like making sure enough copies are kept in various places, files are split & encrypted, allowing you to retrieve them, etc.

Ultimately, I would like to faciliate a system where by we act as a clearing house so that users can buy & sell disk space & resources.

In order to get going however, I would like to take part in the HiveCache pilot. To do this, I require 25-50 willing volunteers.

You will need:

- an always on broadband connection - a few gig of spare disk space - a little enthusiasm and a willingness to return comments

If that sounds like you, then please could you drop an email to hivecache@gradwell.net stating your - name, - email, - type of internet connection and - what operating system you're running on.

Any questions, let me know.

many thanks peter

-- peter gradwell. gradwell dot com Ltd. http://www.gradwell.com/ engineering & hosting services for email, web and usenet

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