[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst

[Benja Fallenstein]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Changes by:     Benja Fallenstein <address@hidden>      03/05/29 16:11:25

Modified files:
        storm          : short-paper.rst 

Log message:
        much too much now

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst.diff?tr1=1.9&tr2=1.10&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.9 
manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.10
--- manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.9       Thu May 29 15:36:39 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst   Thu May 29 16:11:24 2003
@@ -86,13 +86,40 @@
 harddisk, attached to another email, or on the
 public Internet.
 
+.. structure of this paper:
+
+
+Related work
+============
+
 Systems like Lotus Notes [XXX], a popular database sharing 
 and collaboration tool, use location-independent, 
 global identifiers to refer to documents.
 
 .. Freenet's cryptographical identifiers:
 
-XXX
+Freenet [freenet-andalso-freenet-ieee]_, a peer-to-peer
+anonymous publication system, uses cryptographic
+functions to generate location-independent identifiers.
+
+In Freenet, identifiers for specific versions of documents are
+generated by the use of a *collision-free cryptographic 
+hash function* [XXX]. A hash function maps an arbitrary-length
+input to a short, fixed-length output, e.g. 20 bytes.
+
+Hash functions are collision-free if it is 
+mathematically extremely unlikely that two documents
+will ever be mapped to the same hash, making them
+ideal to identify documents on the Web.
+
+Documents are identified by a public key.
+Versions of the documents are then 
+digitally signed [XXX]_ using the corresponding 
+private key.
+
+However, finding a document on Freenet can be
+quite slow, taking many seconds. This is not
+acceptable for general Web publishing.
 
 .. non-breaking links seem not globally resolvable:
 
@@ -130,8 +157,6 @@
 This, we believe, may be the most important result of peer-to-peer 
 research with regard to hypermedia.
 
-.. structure of this paper:
-
 
 Storm
 =====
@@ -144,10 +169,6 @@
 .. accessible through Java library or http gateway:
 
 .. web interface for searching etc.
-
-
-Application integration
-=======================
 
 - Konqueror and Netscape 4 understand Storm URNs
 - KDE programs can load from and save to Storm URNs