Siteless Website Possible?

Re:Siteless Website Possible? by greenyoda on Sunday October 21, 2012 @10:55PM (#4681651)

BitTorrent is OK for files whose content remains static over time, like a video. But if you had a web page that needed to be updated over time, wouldn't having multiple, distributed copies of it make it difficult to ensure that everyone had the most recent version? Who would have the right to make updates? And what if there were conflicting updates?

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Re:Siteless Website Possible? by science_robot on Sunday October 21, 2012 @11:13PM (#4681693)

(I'm not a cryptographer)

Imagine a web where all links were magnet links. Each site could also have a magnet link to another site containing a diff in case of updates which the browser would automatically check.

The content hash in the magnet link would have to be based on something other than content (because content is not known at the time of page creation). The magnet link could contain a cryptographic hash of a secret string that only the owner possessed.

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Re:Siteless Website Possible? by nates on Monday October 22, 2012 @12:42AM (#4681882)

haha yep, i thought of this like 6-8 years ago. from what I've sorta thought of in conjunction with your statements, I'd like to add that there's numerous processing and hacking issues and whatever else. It's extremely insecure. The closest we will get to this is the "cloud".

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Re:Siteless Website Possible? by cleverjake on Sunday October 21, 2012 @11:27PM (#4681724)

Aren't these the exact same issues the cdns deal with?

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