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Why can't we come up with something similar but using HTTPS and Public Key Infrastructure that I can host on my own server but still be interoperable?
The only thing I dislike about this idea is that it appears to be another centralised service. Why can't we come up with something similar but using HTTPS and Public Key Infrastructure that I can host on my own server but still be interoperable?
Has any thought been given on that?
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Hi, Camlistore author here. Andrew Gerrand worked with me on Camlistore too and is one of the Upspin authors. The main difference I see is that Camlistore can model POSIX filesystems for backup and FUSE, but that's not its preferred view of the world. It is perfectly happy modeling a tweet or a "like" on its own, without any name in the world. Upspin's data model is very much a traditional filesystem. Also, upspin ca…
Would it make sense to provide an upspin server interface to Camlistore?
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We are aware of kbfs, ipfs, and several other systems. There are many trade-offs one can make in this space, and I think Upspin's set of tradeoffs is somewhat unique. One reason we started this project instead of contributing to others is that it's not clear that the trade-offs made by extant systems are really working for users, at a fundamental level. Maybe Upspin's will, maybe they won't. We'll see. We wrote a bit…
Does upspin have a known "set of tradeoffs [that are] somewhat unique" or does the community need to flesh them out? High-level bullets would be nice.
I noted the disclaimer: "Upspin is not an official Google product". Yet it is announced on the Google Blog? Is it a separate "skunk works" team effort? Also, I note that they can set access levels based on email addresses, but I am unsure how that would work? Would those emails have to be linked to a Google account so that Upspin could check the currently logged in Google account to allow/disallow access to the files…
Upspin is one of Google's many Open Source projects. It's not really skunkworks, per se, just something that we wanted to work on and were lucky enough to be supported by Google in doing so. The email addresses are Upspin user names whose public keys are registered with a central server, key.upspin.io. To act as an Upspin client, you need to sign up: https://upspin.io/doc/signup.md Requests made by Upspin users are s…
Rob Pike is the 2nd biggest contributor to this project: https://github.com/upspin/upspin/graphs/contributors
You could use this to gather a large amount of social-graph data. I wonder, are people considered intimate in proportion to the amount of data they share?
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