Kevinslin

Notes by kevin

  • speaker
    • cto of fission codes
    • working on lots of protocols
  • context for auth
    • theres a lot in th emiddle
    • lots of data is sensitive
  • networked data, not apsp
  • 3 techniques
    • global primary key (content hashing)
    • cryptrees/dark forest
  • content hashing
    • never change
    • hard links for the web
    • self verifying data
  • private data substrate
    • traditional: file system
    • new:
      • partitioned
      • persistent & versioning
        • feature but also implementation detail
        • just maps under the hood
      • private data
        • crypto is just transforming existing problems into key management problems
        • what changed: ubiquitous web crypto api
          • you can't extract keys using the api, only signing
  • offline access control
    • use hash tree vs trie
  • concurrent writes