Links

Links to related work on using distributed systems to achieve availability, as well as links to anonymity, communcation security and Internet payment system projects.

See also Anonymity Bibliography

• See also the Free Haven Project's anonymity bibliography

Availability

papers

• The Eternity Service (Ross Anderson)
• Efficient Massive Sharing of Content among Peers (Triantafillou, Xiruhaki, Koubarakis)
• Eternity Service (Tonda Benes et al)
• OceanStore (John Kubiatowicz et al)
• Xenoservers (Dickon Reed et al)
• Content Addressable Network (Sylvia Ratnasamy et al)
• Content-Addressable Web (Justin Chapweske / Onion Networks)
• Byzantine Quorum Systems (Dahlia Malkhi)
• Agoric Systems (Agoric Systems Inc)
• Symptomatic File System (Graydon Hoare)
• Intermemory (Peter N. Yianilos)
• cypherspace datahaven design (Ian Brown)
• Distributed File Systems (Ted Anderson)
• FreeHaven (Roger Dingledine et al)
• SwarmCast (OpenCola)
• LOCKSS (David Rosenthal and Vicky Reich)
• Content Addressable Web (Onion Networks)

distributed name space proposals

• Eternal Resource Locators (Ross Anderson, Vaclav Matyas, Fabien Petitcolas)
• Auditable Namespace (Adam Back)

  prototype systems

• TAZ & Rewebber (Ian Goldberg and David Wagner)
• Eternity USENET (Adam Back)
• Freenet (Ian Clarke et al)
• Blocks (Peter Gunn)
• Publius (Marc Waldman, Avi Rubin and Lorrie Cranor)
• JetFile (Bjorn Gronvall, Ian Marsh, Stephen Pink)
• Decense (Ray Cromwell)

  fielded systems

• Morpheus (Music-City) amazing -- 300 Tb and growing at a rate doubleing every week
• Napster (D. R. Scholl)
• Gnutella (nullsoft & clones)
• Mojo Nation (AZI / Jim McCoy et al)
• eDonkey2000 (Jed McCaleb)
• iMesh
• CODA distributed file system (M. Satyanarayanan et al at CMU)
• inter-mezzo distributed file system (Peter Braam at CMU et al)
• HavenCo physical datahaven (Ryan Lackey et al)

Anonymity references

web anonymity

• freedom (Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc)
• anonymizer (Anonymizer Inc, Lance Cottrell)
• onion routers (US Navy Research Labs)
• Lucent Personal Web Assistance, and spin off
• Proxy Mate (Lucent Technologies Research, ProxyMate)
• Crowds (AT & T Research)
• Who's On First (WOF) protocol (RProcess, Potato Software)

  e-mail anonymity

• type-I (aka cypherpunk aka PGP) remailers need good reference
• mixmaster (Anonymizer Inc, Lance Cottrell, Ulf Moeller)
• java type I remailer implementation (Geoff Keating)

  e-mail pseudonymity

• Nym Alias Net nymserver (Raph Levien)
• freedom pseudonymous mail (Zero Knowledge Systems Inc)
• hushmail web and java based nymserver (Hush Communications)
• Who's On First (WOF) protocol (RProcess, Potato Software)
• Radio Clash start of WOF Implementation (Brian Fordham)
• Babel remailer [postscript file] (C Gulcu and G Tsudik)
• penet nymserver (inactive) (Julf Helsingius)
• mute mail offshore SSL POP/IMAP/SMTP
• Anon Mail Net (Skuz Net)

  Covert Channels and Steganography

• Covert Channels in the TCP/IP protocol suite First Monday Vol 2 No 5, May 97, Craig H Rowland

Internet payment systems and protocols

protocols

• B-money ecash protocol (Wei Dai)
• D-H ecash and (see also) protocol (David Wagner)
• distributed, auditable ecash [postscript file] ( Tomas Sander and Amnon Ta-Shma)
• hashcash CPU resource based cash (Adam Back)
• digital bearer settlement framework (Bob Hettinga)
• Stefan Brand's ecash protocols
• PayWord and MicroMint (Ron Rivest and Adi Shamir)
• Single Term Off-Line Coins Niels Ferguson, EuroCrypt 93 (more efficient off-line variant of Chaum's cut-and choose offline ecash protocol)

fielded systems

• digicash went bankrupt (David Chaum), and
• ecash technologies bought the patents, but...
• infospace subsequently bought the assets of ecash-technologies
• webmoney payment system (rumored to use Chaumian ecash)
• paycash payment system (Chaumian ecash variant)
• millicent payment protocol (Mark Manasse / Digital)
• mondex peer-to-peer smart card cash (Mondex group MasterCard + a UK bank consortium)
• WebFunds payment platform, includes pseudonymous payment system (Systemics)