A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces 141
uler writes "The NY Times has an article about an interesting new open source storage project. Unlike data storage mechanisms today that work 'by making multiple copies of data,' the Cleversafe software takes an 'approach based on dispersing data in encrypted slices.' It's an elegant solution and one that's been a long time coming: the software uses algorithmic techniques known by mathematicians since the 70's. Adi Shamir (of RSA) first wrote of information dispersal is his 1979 paper 'How to Share a Secret (pdf).'"
Hmmm.... (Score:4, Insightful)
Wasn't this Al Gore's idea? (Score:5, Insightful)
With all of this encryption technology, people still need to remember basic security tips. Use good passwords ("password" could be cracked very quickly even with 128 bit AES), maintain physical security (hardware keyloggers can find out about the manifesto you're writing before you even save the file) and use common sense.
Before you all ask, yes it does run Linux. The company was actually at Linuxworld.
Like mnet? (Score:5, Insightful)
From what I remember they split up data into multiple pieces, encrypted it and distributed it over a number of nodes, with some redundancy in it. If you know python and are intrested in p2p I'm sure there's a lot to be learned from that project.
Re:Wasn't this Al Gore's idea? (Score:3, Insightful)
Cite? From what I've read about the original Arpanet, it was designed to allow the sharing of computer resources and data among DoD researchers. It wasn't designed to be a failure-tolerant network, although DARPA funded quite a bit of research in that area.
Re:Hmmm.... (Score:1, Insightful)
(wow, unintentional FP even...)
Re:Use more than one pad? (Score:1, Insightful)