Communication system and method

摘要

There is provided a system, including a network that is defined by its novel approach to privacy, security and freedom for its users, namely privacy by allowing access anonymously, security by encrypting and obfuscating resources and freedom by allowing users to anonymously and irrefutably be seen as genuine individuals on the network and to communicate with other users with total security and to securely access resources that are both their own and those that are shared by others with them. Functional mechanisms that the system are able to restore open communications and worry-free access in a manner that is very difficult to infect with viruses or cripple through denial of service attacks and spam messaging; moreover, it will provide a foundation where vendor lock-in need not be an issue.

主权项

1. A method of protecting data, comprising:
providing a system including a plurality of users, a plurality of data storage nodes and a data communication network linking the plurality of users to the plurality of data storage nodes; and storing user data corresponding to a currency value authenticated by an authenticating arrangement by: (i) dividing the user data into a plurality of data chunks; (ii) swapping data between the data chunks to encrypt and/or obfuscate the data chunks; (iii) storing the one or more encrypted and/or obfuscated data chunks at the plurality of data storage nodes including maintaining multiple copies of the encrypted and/or obfuscated data chunks at the plurality of data storage nodes; (iv) recording, in at least one data map stored in encrypted form at one or more locations in the plurality of data storage nodes, locations of the plurality of data storage nodes at which the one or more encrypted and/or obfuscated data chunks are stored; and (v) from uncorrupted copies of the multiple copies of the encrypted and/or obfuscated data chunks, regenerating one or more replacement encrypted and/or obfuscated data chunks and replacing any copy of the encrypted and/or obfuscated data chunks which has been corrupted; and registering a change of value ownership at the authenticating arrangement of the system to transfer ownership of the currency value from one user to another.