Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Security


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Timestamp:
2007-10-15T22:23:48Z (16 years ago)
Author:
zooko
Comment:

try breaking it down

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  • Security

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    77== Access Control ==
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    9 The Tahoe distributed filesystem is composed of files and directories.  Each file has a unique and unguessable identifier, called a "CHK-URI".  Possession of this identifier is necessary and sufficient to download, reconstruct, decrypt, and verify the integrity of the file.  If a person is not given the CHK-URI, then they cannot see the
     9The Tahoe distributed filesystem is composed of files and directories.
     10
     11=== Files ===
     12
     13==== read access ====
     14
     15Each file has a unique and unguessable identifier, called a "CHK-URI", which is derived from the file contents.  Possession of this identifier is necessary and sufficient to download, reconstruct, decrypt, and verify the integrity of the file.  If a person is not given the CHK-URI, then they cannot see the contents of the file.
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     17==== mutation ====
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     19Files in the Tahoe grid are immutable.  If you upload a file to the grid, and then change part of it and upload it again, then there are now two files in the grid -- the old one and the new one -- and each has a distinct, unique, CHK-URI.
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    1121== Traffic Analysis ==