* Lucio De Re <lu...@proxima.alt.za> wrote: Hi,
> If the cloud were to be a mere repository of (encrypted) Venti blocks, > wouldn't it be a very useful tool? Actually, I already had been doing some works in that area. Not actually venti, but a some bit similar object store, which supports some kind of distribute gc, etc. (yet just unfinished code fragments, didnt have the time to do anything useful yet). > In fact, how do we know that Al Qaeda are not already storing and > distributing all their plans for nuking New York on line as > steganographically encrypted Venti blocks on porno sites? They don't need to, Langley and DOD have enough datacenters around the world ... cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------