June 2002
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
12h 43m
English
Reasons to encrypt content stored on the Internet can be many, but a dominant theme is the persistence of published information, and the ability to successfully resist all attempts to either remove or change data. Practical solutions that ensure data persistency are found in a p2p context because one of the best safeguards is to not have any centralized storage or administration that could be compromised.
By many advocates seen as the original, now subverted purpose of the Internet as a whole, distributed and encrypted p2p solutions such as Freenet are viewed as the vanguard of a new Internet paradigm that will once again make information and its expression free—fundamental rights available to everyone. ...
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