[93180] in Cypherpunks
Re: (eternity) Re: mirroring services, web accounts for ecash
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Wed Jan 14 01:56:48 1998
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.93.980114112449.148D-100000@shirley>
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 22:34:08 -0800
To: platypus@acmeonline.net
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: eternity@internexus.net, cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 4:30 PM -0800 1/13/98, ? the Platypus {aka David Formosa} wrote:
>You know, I think we have been missing one use for eternerty services.
>Its a cheap reliable off site backup system. You simply encrypt your
>data, and throw it into the system.
Bandwidth.
Think about it. Most of us are backing up on DATs or CD-ROMs. But our Net
connections are running at 30-50 KB/sec. Do some quick calculations!
Plus, Bandwidth Part II: When N people begin using Eternity for this kind
of backup....
In any case, this was discussed a few years ago, so we're not "missing"
this use.
(Gelernter's Linda system touched on similar uses.)
--Tim May
The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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