Concept: Distributed Cloud Storage and Utilities based on p2p Model

[Snowfire]

One of the most popular ideas these days is cloud storage--online storing of data, usually by central server owners such as Google, Amazon, etc. Although the idea continues to gain in popularity, concerns have been raised about the privacy and security of  data stored this way. Suppose this task were handled instead by a distributed, encrypted archive hosted in nodes analogous to those used for Bitmessage or cryptocurrencies. Suppose further, if you dare, that online utilities analogous to Google Docs, Google Presentations, etc. were co-implemented with this scheme. Is this mere fantasy, or could it actually work?

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[FirstAscent]

I'm all for it. Businesses come and go. Who wants to ever worry about having to move all your data to another business when crap like that happens.

I've thought of this idea before, and it seems inevitable and the only permanent solution.

[Sukrim]

Check out tahoe-lafs and please help them finally implementing Bitcoin accounting!

[Snowfire]

Tahoe-lafs seems a similar idea, though it apparently runs only on servers (not end-users' machines.) That is not to say that it is not interesting; it might be worth watching for where it goes. Interesting that its development was sponsored  by Google.

[Come-from-Beyond]

Is this mere fantasy, or could it actually work?

It's already working - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table.

[Snowfire]

Aha- so if one could take a pre-existing protocol such as Storage@home and graft something like CloudSNAP onto it, one might have the basis for such a system. (Not that I would have the faintest clue how to do that.)

[myrkul]

Maybe you can do something based on Freenet?

https://freenetproject.org/