Your browser tab could become encrypted storage for someone else’s files
Decentralized storage networks already hand pieces of people’s data to strangers’ machines. The lasting question across these networks is whether the machine holding the data can read it. A research paper by Gregory Magarshak, a professor at IENYC, describes a system called Safecloud built on one design rule: the nodes that store data see only ciphertext, and the nodes that route data hold no keys. How the system splits and hides files Safecloud breaks each … More
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