Owner-Free File System
Sign in to saveThe Owner-Free File System (OFF System, or OFFS for short) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system in which all shared files are represented by randomized multi-used data blocks. Instead of anonymizing the network, the data blocks are anonymized and therefore, only data garbage is ever exchanged and stored and no forwarding via intermediate nodes is required. OFFS claims to have been created with the expressed intention "to cut off some gangrene-infested bits of the copyright industry."
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- free software
- Official website
- offsystem.sourceforge.net
- Image
- OFFSystem.screenshot.1.png
- Has use
- anonymous P2P
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- operating system
- macOS
- copyright license
- GNU General Public License, version 2.0
- software version identifier
- 0.1.0
- source code repository URL
- sourceforge.net/projects/offsystem
- inception
- 2006-00-00
- programmed in
- C++
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Functional Principle
- Store Procedure
- Retrieve Procedure
- Anonymity
- Efficiency
- See also
- References
- External links
The Owner-Free File System (OFF System, or OFFS for short) is a peer-to-peer distributed file system in which all shared files are represented by randomized multi-used data blocks. Instead of anonymizing the network, the data blocks are anonymized and therefore, only data garbage is ever exchanged and stored and no forwarding via intermediate nodes is required. OFFS claims to have been created with the expressed intention "to cut off some gangrene-infested bits of the copyright industry."
==History== OFFS development started within the hacktivism group The Big Hack in 2003 by the hackers Cheater512, CaptainMorgan, Aqlo and WhiteRaven. In 2004, a rudimentary version was finished, written in PHP, which was distributed as two demo CDs. Following these, SpectralMorning re-implemented the functionality in 2004 in C++, which led to the current "mainline" OFFS client.
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