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Robert Helling <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: gpl
Other License: 
Package: HoloSplit
System name: holosplit
This package does NOT want to apply for inclusion in the GNU project

This software digestes a large file and produces a file of approximate size of 
1/n of the original size. Every time it is applied the outputfile is different, 
there can be virtually infinitely many different output files. 

These output files can be recombined holographically, meaning you can take 
(virtually) any collection of n output files to reproduce the original file 
(like the redundancy of a RAID array).

There is no compression involved (but compression can of course be applied 
independently). 

There is a wide range of possible applications like redundant mirroring, file 
sharing services (\"no, my mirror does not have the xyz.mp3, it has at most 
part of it, and, this part is unimportant, since you can have the original 
xyz.mp3 only using parts different from my part on other servers\"), redundant 
backup to floppy disks, etc.

There are working (but slow) perl scripts as a proof of concept available at 
http://www.aei.mpg.de/~helling/holosplit.hmtl