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There are a fair number of studies exploring the usage of P2P distribution of scholarly articles. One issue that would need to be satisfactorily (and simply) d
by thirdstation 15y ago
There are a fair number of studies exploring the usage of P2P distribution of scholarly articles.
One issue that would need to be satisfactorily (and simply) dealt with is trust that the copy you have is the authoritative copy of record.
- bricestacey 15y agoLOCKSS[1] (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) has an algorithm that does its best to ensure you have a real copy and that no one can poison the network. [1] http://www.lockss.org/ http://www.lockss.org/
- rmc 15y agoSimple, bittorrent has inbuilt hashing mechanism. Just host the .torrent file on your own server. Hosting a 20KiB file is cheap as chips.
- icebraining 15y agoThis torrent in particular has that covered: he included an hash of the hashes file in the message, which is signed with his PGP key.