This is a idea I have talked with Remzi just a couple days ago. The basic idea is trying to divide an important documents into several small pieces and hide them on different computers with in a cluster. It’s kind like the P2P software, bittorrent. His idea is that if the pieces on different computers can move around within the grid, it will increase the security. But my argument is how novel this idea is? It doesn’t sound to be a great Ph.D. topic, maybe a paper through. Anyway, trying to do some research on this…
Here are some references I am looking at:
theFastSecureFileSystem:
http://fsfs.sourceforge.net/
Secure FileSystem (SFS) for DOS/Windows:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/sfs/
http://www.occamslab.com/petricek/papers/sfs/
Tahoe: A Secure Distributed Filesystem:
http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html