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WWW: http://www.fs.net/
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SFS (Self-Certifying File System) is a secure, global file system
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with completely decentralized control. SFS lets you access your
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files from anywhere and share them with anyone, anywhere. Anyone
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can set up an SFS server, and any user can access any server from
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any client. SFS lets you share files across administrative realms
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without involving administrators or certification authorities.
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SFS names file systems by public keys. Every remote file server is
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mounted on a self-certifying pathname -- a directory of the form
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/sfs/LOCATION:HOSTID, where LOCATION is a DNS hostname and HOSTID
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is a cryptographic hash of a public key. This naming scheme allows
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for completely decentralized control -- anyone can create a file
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server, and any user can access any file server from any client.
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Various key management schemes can be built on top of SFS using
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symbolic links to map human-readable names to self-certifying
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pathnames.
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