Bab
Efficient proof of validity of streamed data
Content-addressable storage (CAS) lets peers resolve secure digests to strings, but faces a dilemma: if a string cannot be transferred in full, peers cannot tell whether what they received so far is legitimate data. Discarding the data leads to redownloads and might make large downloads in spotty networks impossible. Persisting untrusted data allows peers to place arbitrary data on your machine. We write a Rust implementation of the Bab hash functions which solve this issue.
- The project's own website: https://worm-blossom.github.io/bab/
This project was funded through the NGI0 Commons Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 101135429. Additional funding is made available by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
