Re: [ANN] Sia - Decentralized Storage - Working Beta

Quote from: akaman on September 21, 2015, 01:17:24 AM

Quote from: MinermanNC on September 20, 2015, 08:57:47 PM

I can also see a point in time where company's/individuals would be willing to pay even more for SIA services because of its anonymity.

Can you elaborate on how SIA (or: Sia?) provides anonymity to hosters and/or renters?

What I understand of SIA thus far is that hosted files are split and encrypted. But this is not the same as anonymity.

The list of hosts, with their IPs, is publicly accessible. Similarly, I understand transactions on the blockchain are transparent. Thus, transactions on the blockchain are pseudanonymous, not strictly anonymous.

Well the way I understand it is that an individual file upload will be split into pieces of data amongst 6 or 8 storage host somewhere in the world. The only way to see that file in a complete useful way is through the up loaders wallet. There is no way to actually view a file on any one storage host. (as its in a piece of the data) So that's really close to being anonymous I would think.

What your suggesting is that some entity would have to know what pieces to what file is stored where in the world and somehow retrieve that data from each host and somehow piece it all back together without having the actual wallet that uploaded it? I don't know seems pretty hard to imagine that a file could be hacked in any way shape or form. Let alone know who the owner is? maybe I missed something in the security features.

Other words how would you or anyone know what files I may have stored on the network? Maybe you can elaborate that part more? Grin

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