Re:Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains
by lovetrump on Thursday April 12, 2018 @08:33PM
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What if all servers would hold some random bits and no one would have any whole file (only the clients would be getting whole files)
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Re:Publisher Gets Carte Blanche to Seize New Sci-Hub Domains
by dane-pgp on Thursday April 12, 2018 @08:56PM
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The talk of holding "random bits" reminds me of the idea behind the Owner-Free File System:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFFSystem
Basically people would be hosting random-looking blocks of data, but users could be instructed to XOR two carefully chosen blocks together, producing a meaningful file.
Because of the nature of XOR, if Alice sees that Bob is hosting a file F, she could generate and host a file G, such that F XOR G produces a banned file, providing plausible deniability for Bob (as long as he can point to a file H such that F XOR H produces an innocent file).