Conveners
Decentralized Web and Storage Architectures
- Guido Aben
Solid is quicky shaping into a solution for bringing data ownership back into the hands of the user. And yet, despite all the available storage options that are already provided, moving that data from one solution to another is not a solved problem.
The Solid project provides specifications for a different kind of web. By allowing people to store their own data in decentralized data stores...
Besides providing data sharing, commercial cloud-based file-sharing services (e.g., Dropbox) also enforce access control, i.e. permit users to decide who can access which data.
In this work, we advocate the separation between the sharing of data and the access control function. We specifically promote an overlay approach that provides end-to-end encryption and empowers the end users with the...
On the highest level, we are presenting different views to problems and different views to solutions related to
$$(c)\textrm{ Cloud}, (s_1) \textrm{ Storage}, (s_2) \textrm{ Synchronization}, (s_3) \textrm{ Sharing}.$$ To achieve this goal, we are presenting a merge of two actors with different background and different philosophy: $$ Academic $$ approach to development of a storage...
