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2  Storm: Using P2P to make the desktop part of the Web  Storm: Using P2P to make the desktop part of the Web
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5    .. TODO
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8  .. raw:: latex  .. raw:: latex
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10      \begin{abstract}      \begin{abstract}
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57     which would make them part of the web:     which would make them part of the web:
58    
59  While many Web pages are densely interlinked today,  While many Web pages are densely interlinked today,
60  desktop documents still have rarely any hypermedia  desktop documents still have any hypermedia
61  functionality. Even though documents written with  functionality only rarely.
62    Even though documents written with
63  Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org can nowadays be  Microsoft Word or OpenOffice.org can nowadays be
64  linked just like HTML files, users almost never  linked just like HTML files, users almost never
65  do so.  seem to do so.
66    
67  Hypermedia on the desktop would be useful for  Hypermedia on the desktop would be useful for
68  keeping hyperlinked notes, for referring to  keeping hyperlinked notes, for referring to
# Line 95  public Internet. Line 99  public Internet.
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100  Location-independent identifiers are not a new idea.  Location-independent identifiers are not a new idea.
101  In Freenet [freenet-ieee]_, an anonymous peer-to-peer  In Freenet [freenet-ieee]_, an anonymous peer-to-peer
102  publication system, *cryptographic hashes* [bakhtiari95cryptographic]_  publication system, *cryptographic hashes*
103    (see, e.g., [schneier96appliedcryptography]_)
104  are used to identify versions of documents. Hashes  are used to identify versions of documents. Hashes
105  are short, e.g. 20 bytes, yet it is practically impossible  are short (often 20 bytes), yet it is practically impossible
106  that two different documents will ever have the same hash,  that two different documents will ever have the same hash,
107  making them ideal identifiers on the Web.  making them ideal identifiers on the Web.
108    

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