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[WIP] A decentralized public key network with encryption utilities for data collaboration

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Device networks

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I was thinking that metadat could have two types of "device networks"

  • user networks
  • group networks

A "device network" would simply be redundant devices that pull and share all the exact same stuff over the network. Since users will likely span multiple devices, you can replicate their full metadat directory over the two devices. Whenever you create a dat on one device, it gets auto-pulled and shared on the other device.

(If one device in a user device network is stolen, would we need to revoke the pgp key? The PGP private key would be encrypted using the user's passphrase, and all their data could be encrypted, so maybe it'd be ok.)

Likewise, goups may want to provide more bandwidth or storage for their dats. These "group device networks" would pull all the dats from a group, as soon as they are created for that group, and store and share the data. These group networks would not need to store any user information, but would just replicate the group dats.