From: Michael Handler <grendel@netaxs.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 95 20:24:50 PST
To: Jonathan Cooper <entropy@IntNet.net>
Subject: Re: Another problem w/Data Havens...
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On Wed, 18 Jan 1995, Jonathan Cooper wrote:

> > 	I could write a procmail recipe and a script in about an hour to
> > automatically secret-share-split and redistribute the incoming submission.
> 
>    I'll wager most of us could.  Question: whom would you redistribute it 
> _TO_?  This seems to be the stumbling block - who is willing to store the 
> data on their machine or net account?

	Why, other data haven operators, of course.

	[ Insert 500 messages about anonymous payment systems, 
FirstVirtual vs DigiCash, remailers, "data haven" guilds, etc. ]

[ ... ]
>    How would you handle retrieval of the data?  

	Details, details. Just off the top of my head: an encrypted 
database that logs where the pieces were split and sent to. When the 
original data haven recieves a request for the file, it sends out 
requests to the other data havens, and reassembles the file, and shoots 
it out again to the original owner.

Michael
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