We collect and analyze a snapshot of data from 10,568 file systems of 4801 Windows personal computers in a commercial environment. The file systems contain 140 million files total...
In many content distribution systems it is important both to restrict access to content to authorized users and to protect the identities of these users. We discover that current s...
We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a fully distributed directory service for Farsite, a logically centralized file system that is physically implemented on a...
Abstract— Peer-to-peer content distribution networks can suffer from malicious participants that corrupt content. Current systems verify blocks with traditional cryptographic sig...