EDDB/RN
Jim Dixon
jdd at aiki.demon.co.uk
Wed Aug 10 10:44:19 PDT 1994
In message <9408091536.AA22362 at ah.com> Eric Hughes writes:
> However, there should be a use for persistent store, for a remote
> encrypted database accessible anonymously.
>
> The real questions are "how big is the market?" and "how much revenue
> is there in it?".
>
> Something like this doesn't get made reliable by volunteers.
I think that the market is potentially large.
> Ideally, the data is stored on a distributed data base, with some
> redundancy in case one or more gateways go down
>
> Look in Schneier for secret sharing.
We won't have a copy of Schneier here for three weeks or so. Can
you elaborate?
However, almost certainly, the crypto aspects would be relatively
minor. Most of the work would be in building a reliable widely
distributed data base accessible over the Internet. When I last
looked at this sort of problem, it was very complex.
--
Jim Dixon
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