| 摘要 |
This present invention relates to a distributed system, such as a decentralized peer-to-peer network, wherein a user can use any computer in the system and be presented with their own data and desktop. The system further comprises perpetual data storage wherein it is ensured there are several copies of each piece of data at several geographic locations such that the number of copies is monitored and further copies or replicas are generated when any type of failure is detected or there is corruption in any single copy. This ensures that the number of copies of the piece of data is maintained in the network. This further provides self-healing, fault resistance and duplicate removal. The system further comprises anonymous authentication providing anonymous access to the distributed system comprising receiving a user identifier, retrieving an encrypted validation record identified by the user identifier, decrypting the encrypted validation record and authenticating access to data in a distributed file system using the decrypted information to provide anonymous authentication. In addition to these features the system also utilizes a n + p key sharing system, wherein a user may be provided with a supervisor's or manager's key and given access to resources, or all user's data, stored in the storage area network, at or below the current access level in the corporate hierarchy. The description also contains many additional features such as self-encryption, shared access to private files, cyber cash, data mapping, a worldwide voting system, ms messenger and data chunking. |
