[tahoe-dev] filerock, SpiderOak, mega, "BitTorrent Share", Dropbox, dedupe

Tony Arcieri tony.arcieri at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 20:28:26 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:43 AM, Zooko O'Whielacronx <zookog at gmail.com>wrote:

> It shows that there are some customers who are okay with read-cap-in-URL!
> Apparently Mega generates a URL for each file, and possession of that
> URL is sufficient to give access to that file! Maybe they learned it
> from us. I hope so.


If they learned it from you they are poor students ;)  Some discussion
about that here:

https://twitter.com/CodesInChaos/status/293465296415621120

MEGA lacks Tahoe's writecaps, or any way to sign tree roots such that you
can give away a read-only cap. But yeah, looks like they have the basics of
Tahoe-style immutable files.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
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