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diff --git a/report/chapters/2-lit-r.tex b/report/chapters/2-lit-r.tex index 0cd52ea..cdb48d2 100644 --- a/report/chapters/2-lit-r.tex +++ b/report/chapters/2-lit-r.tex @@ -41,19 +41,15 @@ Yeo et al. takes the responsibility to sync file fragments/shards to each file storage provider and uses the OAuth 2.0 \cite{protocol:oauth2} protocol for authorization. -For encrypting file fragments, they use AES-256; the key for +For encrypting file fragments, they use AES-256. The key for encrypting file fragments is derived from the user's password by using Password-Based Key Derivation Function (PBKDF2) \cite{kaliski}. For erasure coding they use the JigDFS library \cite{jigdfs}. The Android -application is able do ``progressive streaming'' of media files; this -means that large media files can be streamed in real-time from the -from the file storage providers' data store; this is an attractive -feature in a ``resource constrained'' device where storage is -expensive. - -Yeo et al. propose methods for achieving data de-duplication; file -compression based on file type; intelligent pre-fetching and caching -of file fragments and ``automatic restoration in exploiting +application is able do ``progressive streaming'' of media files, this +means large media files can be streamed in real-time from the file +storage providers' data store. ``Progressive streaming'' is an +attractive feature in a ``resource constrained'' device where storage +is expensive. file-versioning''. These features were not implemented in the prototype Android application and there is possibility of Yeo et al. implementing these features in the future. @@ -166,7 +162,7 @@ Now, the file \verb+deb-nicholson-80s.medium.webm+ is checked into \verb+git-annex+ and the command \verb+git annex sync+ can be issued to sync the repository to other \verb+git-annex+ repositories. It must be noted here that when the repository is synced, the file content -itself is not transferred to the other \verb+git-annex+ repositories; +itself is not transferred to the other \verb+git-annex+ repositories, only the file's name and its meta-data that is stored in a separate git branch called \verb+git-annex+ are transferred \cite{documentation:git-annex-hworks}. In order to create a copy of a |