Supporting Wide Scale Secure P2P Search

Bert690 writes "We all know that it's possible to search the huge expanse of the public web with a single uniform interface (think Google). But what about searching over private files, such as those someone you might not even know has given you access to on some obscure file-sharing network? A recent paper looks at supporting uniform search of distributed private content. The goal is to do it without opening up those who share stuff to lawsuits or other privacy violations, or relying on a central trusted index host."

Do me a favor...

[satanami69]

Someone search that story and index what the hell it was trying to say.

"such as those someone you might not even know has given you access to on some obscure file-sharing network"

Re:my dream has been stolen

[nate nice]

Your dream hasn't been stolen, it has been enhanced because someone else took the time to write these things down for you in which you can expand upon them. This is the purpose of science, to share ideas so others can learn and improve upon them. So, compare this with what your ideas are and come up with something better and of course, implement it.

Better get your patent application in now...

[Curtman]

Before the patent office discovers Bitzi [bitzi.org]

Already out there.

[__aafkqj3628]

Users of the ed2k (edonkey) network, already have several of these indexers.
Services like Jigle [jigle.com] send and cache searches from servers and users to give users the latest avalibility and link for a particular file/hash.

What is wrong with PDF?

[nurb432]

Its really not that bad of a format, and is publically available, so most everyone supports both reading and creation..

You arent tied down to any platform/os/application.. Sounds good to me.