Scrambeld data secure data
Keeping data organized might not
successfully secure it. Chris Gladwin,
a software engineer and businessman
in Chicago kept his critical data safe by
fragmenting and scattered files worth
27 GB (equivalent to a library of 22,000
books) on the Internet. Gladwin said he
was curious about the methodology used
by cryptographers to keep information
secure by segregating them into parts and
dispersing them. This is what gave birth to
his personal project called Cleversafe.
As of now, to store data on the Internet
in distributed form,
you need to copy
the data five times
or more. Cleversafe,
on the other hand,
breaks a piece of data
into a large number
of small fragments
and stores them at
different locations.
The additional benefit
is the original data can be reconstructed
from a majority of fragments.
Cleversafe has culminated into a
system with enough potential to offer
government agencies and companies
a simple way to store secured data. It
allows you to reassemble the fi le only
by the computer that originally created
the fragments. Although the concept
of splitting and storing secured data is
not new, Cleversafe is considered to be
a signifi cant step as it is an open-source
system and will therefore lower the cost
of reliably storing strong
data on the Internet.
The experimental
Cleversafe grid is spread
across 11 storage sites,
which is expected to
increase to tens of
thousands or hundreds
of thousands once
this technology is commerercially accepted.
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