That description sounds like exactly what I have in mind for the Cryptosphere.
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:41 PM, James A. Donald <jam...@echeque.com> wrote: > On 2012-03-23 4:55 AM, Volodya wrote: > >> I don't quite understand. The system must be [anonymous in the sense that >> the >> uploader cannot be identified]&& [have moderation system based on >> something >> other than the blocks popularity like in GnuNet/Freenet*]. The system >> must be >> [using limited amount of disk space given by its users] and [provide >> infinite >> storage guarantee when moderation doesn't apply]. >> >> I think that the reason why you can't find this filesystem is akin to the >> reason >> why all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good god has not been spotted yet. >> > > Here is a solution: > > Everyone is, as with Bitcoin, identified by a public key - but by quite a > few public keys, providing not anonymity but pseudonymity. > > When you store stuff on someone else's system you issue an IOU, which IOU > is anonymously transferable, using a chaumian protocol, which *does* > provide anonymity - you pseudonymously store other people's stuff, and > anonymously use the resulting IOUs to store your own stuff. > > From time to time you check that stuff that is stored on someone else's > system is available by random sampling. > > When stuff stored on someone else's system becomes inaccessible, you note > him as unreliable, and thus decline to issue IOUs or services to him in > future, though since IOUs are transferable, you are still up for any IOUs > you have issued to him in the past. > > The software attempts to cancel out IOUs - so that if Bob provides > services to Carol, Carol provides services to Edwards, and Edwards provides > services to Bob, they cancel out. If someone's IOUs get cancelled out in a > cycle of IOUs that include your own, or include those you have confidence > are reliable, this is evidence he is reliable in that his IOUs are good. > > You try to store stuff with those that you have reason to believe are > reliable, and with those where storing stuff with them enables you to > cancel out IOUs. > > You give low priority to storing stuff from people whose IOUs you have no > reason to believe. > > Repeating: You pseudonymously store other people's stuff, using a nym that > gains reputation thereby, and anonymously store your stuff on other > people's systems, using a nym with no reputation. > > ______________________________**_________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > p2p-hackers@lists.zooko.com > http://lists.zooko.com/**mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers<http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers> > -- Tony Arcieri
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