| 摘要 |
The present invention relates to file system authentication and, in parti cular, authentication of users for accessing files stored on a serverless di stributed or peer-to-peer file system. Its objective is to preserve the anon ymity of the users and to provide secure and private storage of data for use rs on a serverless distributed file system. It provides a method of authenti cating access to a distributed file system comprising the steps of; receivin g a user identifier; retrieving an encrypted validation record identified by the user identifier; decrypting the encrypted validation record so as to pr ovide decrypted information; and authenticating access to data in the distri buted file system using the decrypted information.
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