| 7 | 7 | The advantages of deduplication should be clear, but keep in mind that the convergence secret was created to combat snooping. For example, with a convergence secret and a file, I can generate a file capability that would allow me to determine that you have uploaded a file to the grid. This isn't a big deal for things that are personally produced, but is a big deal for commonly known things that you want to keep secret that you know about. Examples would be a Bible in China or The Anarchist's Cookbook at the High School that I went to. Here's the details of the origin of the convergence secret: [https://tahoe-lafs.org/hacktahoelafs/drew_perttula.html Convergence Secret Justification] |
