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[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst
From: |
Tuomas J. Lukka |
Subject: |
[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst |
Date: |
Fri, 30 May 2003 10:01:12 -0400 |
CVSROOT: /cvsroot/gzz
Module name: manuscripts
Changes by: Tuomas J. Lukka <address@hidden> 03/05/30 10:01:11
Modified files:
storm : short-paper.rst
Log message:
More
CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst.diff?tr1=1.22&tr2=1.23&r1=text&r2=text
Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.22
manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.23
--- manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.22 Fri May 30 09:55:49 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst Fri May 30 10:01:11 2003
@@ -173,12 +173,21 @@
manipulate the blocks.
This seems like a bad tradeoff: while these identifiers
enable secure location-independent references, they
-are also less comprehensible for humans and do not allow
-the documents referred to by the identifiers to change.
+do not allow
+the documents referred to by the identifiers to change
+and
+are also less comprehensible for humans.
However, Storm is able to address both downsides by
simple cryptographic techniques.
-
+One of the key innovations in storm is the use
+of *pointer blocks*
+to build mutable documents on top of
+the lowest-layer append-and-delete-only model.
+A pointer block is simply a storm block which says
+``The identifier X points to document Id, overriding
+the previous pointer blocks a, b`` and contains
+a digital signature of the above information.
.. storing
documents on the desktop and publishing and retrieving
@@ -198,11 +207,10 @@
The URN is constructed analogously to a DATA URI (RFC XXX)
from the hash and the content-type.
-
-Our system implements append-and-delete-only
-storage; past versions of documents are stored
-unless deleted explicitly. It is possible to
-store only the differences between versions.
+.. Our system implements append-and-delete-only
+ storage; past versions of documents are stored
+ unless deleted explicitly. It is possible to
+ store only the differences between versions.
Interfacing
===========
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, (continued)
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Benja Fallenstein, 2003/05/29
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Hermanni Hyytiälä, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst,
Tuomas J. Lukka <=
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Hermanni Hyytiälä, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Hermanni Hyytiälä, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30
- [Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst, Tuomas J. Lukka, 2003/05/30