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About mich-unhosted

Michiel (I founded the Unhosted project, together with Kenny)

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    Comment #2084040

    fair enough, still, it never hurts to have free software alternatives to commercial software. in installed software, we are already used to having the option to use linux, OpenOffi…

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    Comment #2065665

    i can see your point, but there are some differences. the main one is that freenet is anonymous, and unhosted is not. i think unhosted is, if anything, most similar to SMTP: a prot…

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    Comment #2065650

    you would need decentralized search algorithms. i haven't looked at that much myself, but there are some projects out there that seem interesting. to give an idea: when my friend i…

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    Comment #2065638

    yes, that's a good point. in cloud services there are at least 3 options, and no monopoly (yet). also, we understand the big value that SaaS if offering people. that's exactly why …

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    Comment #2065619

    it is definitely full of complicated issues, but we have already found solutions for some of them (not all yet). please join our mailing list and help think about the remaining one…

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    Comment #2065602

    like in PGP, you would use a session key: symmetric encryption of the thread, then encrypt that symmetric key once for every thread- or forum member. you can only add people to thi…

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    Comment #2024100

    I hadn't even thought of that angle! i guess businesses also have civil rights online. :) and mainly: it might help us bootstrap the ecosystem. thanks! it means we should write the…

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    Comment #2023748

    i updated www.unhosted.org/manifesto.html to include some more info on how it works. the code does not claim to be anything more than a proof of concept. As you say, it's a silly 1…

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    Comment #2023734

    > Nice, seeding a cryptographic! PRNG with math.random(). that file is part of the JavaScript Big Numbers library by Tom Wu, which unhosted builds on top of. sorry if that wasn't c…

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    Comment #2023665

    Communication between app and unhosted storage node is over HTTP, yes. In the current version. But the unhosted storage node wouldn't care if it's a browser or a desktop app / phon…

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    Comment #2023645

    We updated the page this links to, but added a link to the previous version for reference.