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Re: [ANN] Storj - Decentralized Storage
by
Remington_Steele
on 09/01/2015, 09:42:10 UTC
Is there any kind of documentation?

http://metadisk.org/metadisk.pdf

http://storj.io/storj.pdf

https://github.com/Storj/whitepapers

The DriveShare whitepaper is listed as 'coming soon' on the storj.io website...-thumbsup-

Noob question. In the Metadisk whitepaper, it is stated that copies of data will be stored in three separate locations in line with current industry redundancy standards. In the Storj whitepaper, it is stated data will be broken down into byte multiples such as 8 MB or 32 MB. It is also stated that a "farmer must be able to prove cryptographically that it has the shard, and has not modi fied it in any way." What are the chances of a malicious actor 'damaging' all three shards and destroying the data?

I also noticed that the Storj whitepaper is co-written by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin. Personal contribution or is Ethereum involved with the project?

The malicious actor would need to given all three redundant copies simultaneously.  This is only likely if there is only 1 drive share farmer
Understood. But what is the probability of said actor obtaining all three shards within his own network of farmers? Hypothetically, what if he has 50 unique farmers through 50 NAS+ Drive Share with distinctive IPs? Expanding on this, are the shards distributed geographically? What if those IPs were in the same geographic range?