A strong factor in the early development of computers was security–the computations that
motivated their development, such as decrypting intercepted messages, generating gunnery …

Decentralized systems are a subset of distributed systems where multiple authorities control
different components and no authority is fully trusted by all. This implies that any component …

Windows Azure Storage (WAS) is a cloud storage system that provides customers the ability
to store seemingly limitless amounts of data for any duration of time. WAS customers have …

Large-scale peer-to-peer systems face security threats from faulty or hostile remote
computing elements. To resist these threats, many such systems employ redundancy …

Farsite is a secure, scalable file system that logically functions as a centralized file server but
is physically distributed among a set of untrusted computers. Farsite provides file availability …

Availability is a storage system property that is both highly desired and yet minimally
engineered. While many systems provide mechanisms to improve availability-such as …

OceanStore is an Internet-scale, persistent data store designed for incremental scalability,
secure sharing, and long-term durability. Pond is the OceanStore prototype; it contains many …

(Continued) veri? cation value is formed by hashing the associated encrypted block using a
one-Way hash function. The? le format supports veri? cation of individual? le blocks Without …

Proper data placement schemes based on erasure correcting codes are one of the most
important components for a highly available data storage system. For such schemes, low …

COCA is a fault-tolerant and secure online certification authority that has been built and
deployed both in a local area network and in the Internet. Extremely weak assumptions …