| 9 | The Tahoe distributed filesystem is composed of files and directories. Each file has a unique and unguessable identifier, called a "CHK-URI". Possession of this identifier is necessary and sufficient to download, reconstruct, decrypt, and verify the integrity of the file. If a person is not given the CHK-URI, then they cannot see the |
| 13 | ''To be filled in.'' Traffic analysis is subtle and powerful. For the moment, assume that if someone wants to, they can learn everything about your every act, including when were, and which file, by its unique identifier and its length ''except'' that they can't learn the actual contents of the files, except that if the file happens to be a file whose contents they already know then they can. Make sense? I'll come back later. |