Re: [Gzz] Re: the Storm article

[Benja Fallenstein]

Hi Eric,

Eric Armstrong wrote:
> Benja Fallenstein wrote:
>>>
> > > I look forward to "Taking the World by Storm".
> >
> > And I'm looking forward to that article! ;)
>
> I wrote up a starter page. I'll be needing a pointer
> to wherever this paper gets published. Then I'll need to do
> a close read of the final version and come up with a big 
> picture summary that explains why this will be the best thing
> since sliced bread -- and find a publisher. (The fact that its
> written in Java will help, since I'm in touch with several
> editors....)

Our original submission was rejected, because some of the reviewers 
strongly believed that there would be hash collisions (we didn't say in 
the paper how unlikely that is, mathematically, as you remember :) ). We 
were encouraged to re-submit as a short paper, and that was accepted. 
I've attached it.

It will be published in: http://www.ht03.org/

I currently use Storm to store my own notes (written in emacs) and I'm 
already quite satisfied with it, so I think we're nearing the point 
where we can make a first public release.

However, pointers (i.e., documents that you can change) aren't yet in a 
state where we could make the persistency commitment on them, and thus I 
don't feel ready to make a public release yet. :( Because, if people 
saved data in Storm using the current format, later versions of Storm 
wouldn't be able to read it. So I wouldn't feel confident asking people 
to start using it in its current form.

Currently doing research on the problem (lots of thinking), and I hope 
to get something done "real soon now" ;-)

(The research problem with pointers is that it's not really good enough 
to bind pointers to cryptographic public keys-- you want to be able to 
change keys when your original key gets leaked to the public, for 
example, and have your pointers continue to work. If you want, I can 
give you an update with the details.)

Cheers,
- Benja

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