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TransfersfortheDecentralizedFrontier
WhitJack
LeadDeveloperOpalOpacitySecuritySuite
LosAngeles,CA
whit@whitjack.me
21November2014
Introduction
File storageand transferhasrepeatedlyshownitsvulnerabilitiesin bothsecurity andprivacyandthis
problemisamplified whenstoringonesfilesandinformation inthe cloud. Inanefforttofindafinal
solution to this problem, decentralized cloud storage was created. Highly skilled individuals and
organizationsareresearching differentsolutionstoharnessthisnewtechnology. Opalisdevelopingan
experimental systemthat willallowindividualstheability to: upload,transfer, anddecryptfilesusing
theOpalCorewalletthroughtheStorjMetaDisk1api.
Trends
Currentfilestoragesystemsleave userswithaninadequate systemprotections. Consumersmusttrust
majorsiteslikeBox,GoogleDrive,andDropboxtoresistappropriatinguserinformationfortheirown
uses or forfeiting that information to third parties for profiy or even divulging said information to
governmententities. In lightof recentrevelationsofsecuritybreaches,governmentleaks,andoutright
corporatetheftbusinessandindividualtrustincentralizedcloudsecurityhasreachedanalltimelow.2
Problem
The issue is alackofareliabledistributionsolutiontostoreandtransmitfilesinatrustlesssystem. No
system currently existsthat is effectiveinreaching mass adoptionand protectusersatthesametime.
Companies have now moved towards the installation of local systems to store data which are both
expensiveandtimeconsumingtomaintain,becausetheysimplycannolongertrustincentralizedcloud
storagetofulfillandsupporttheirneeds.
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2
http://metadisk.org/metadisk.pdf
http://www.ca.com/kr/~/media/Files/IndustryAnalystReports/2012securityofcloudcomputerusersfinal1.pdf
Solution
a) Overview
b) Encryption
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