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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst
From: |
Tuomas J. Lukka |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:14:06 -0500 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Branch:
Changes by: Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden> 03/11/10 15:14:06
Modified files:
pointers : article.rst
Log message:
order
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/pointers/article.rst.diff?tr1=1.248&tr2=1.249&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/pointers/article.rst
diff -u manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.248
manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.249
--- manuscripts/pointers/article.rst:1.248 Mon Nov 10 15:12:42 2003
+++ manuscripts/pointers/article.rst Mon Nov 10 15:14:05 2003
@@ -670,6 +670,14 @@
that it overloads the P2P network used. This
a problem shared with other P2P applications.
+While our system helps to keep documents alive after
+the original publisher has lost interest in them, it
+does not protect against a publisher that wants to make
+past versions inaccessible. By simply signing and publishing
+a large number of "fake" versions (e.g., files containing
+random data), a publisher could make correct past versions
+hard to access.
+
An adversary may attempt to use an information hiding attack
against our system,
withholding new versions of documents from clients,
@@ -686,14 +694,6 @@
(because they can then see what one is trying to download).
One way to counter this problem is to use an anonymizing
P2P overlay.
-
-While our system helps to keep documents alive after
-the original publisher has lost interest in them, it
-does not protect against a publisher that wants to make
-past versions inaccessible. By simply signing and publishing
-a large number of "fake" versions (e.g., files containing
-random data), a publisher could make correct past versions
-hard to access.
In this paper, we have proposed to use pointer records as the versioning
mechanism for a location-independent Web.
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst,
Tuomas J. Lukka <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/pointers article.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/11/10