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by compressedgas 104 days ago
_POTSHARDS—a secure, recoverable, long-term archival storage system_ (2009) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1534912.1534914
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Thanks for sharing this! POTSHARDS is a fascinating approach to long-term survivability through secret sharing and distribution. While they focus on avoiding encryption keys via data sharding across multiple archives, I’m trying to tackle the problem from the human side — using a memory-derived recursive cascade as the key. It's interesting to see how different architectures address the 'forgotten master key' dilemma.