full-disclosure - Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage

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Message-ID: <200310082042.h98KgW009441@panix5.panix.com>
From: sethb at panix.com (Seth Breidbart)
Subject: Re: [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage

> Thus you could store a whopping 2 Gb of data, in a perfect network, or
> 256 MB.  My desktop at home has more DRAM, and has far better access
> behavior.  So the network layer juggling is pointless.

Nope.

> So who cares?  Why juggle when shelves hold so much more?

It keeps the encryption (decryption) key safe from someone seizing my
computer.

Seth