[Gzz-commits] manuscripts/storm short-paper.rst

[Toni Alatalo]

CVSROOT:        /cvsroot/gzz
Module name:    manuscripts
Branch:         
Changes by:     Toni Alatalo <address@hidden>   03/06/16 08:09:29

Modified files:
        storm          : short-paper.rst 

Log message:
        edits/rephrasing according to review comments: the philosophical 
existency of overlapping hashes, and repeated mentions of Storm

CVSWeb URLs:
http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/gzz/manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst.diff?tr1=1.45&tr2=1.46&r1=text&r2=text

Patches:
Index: manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst
diff -u manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.45 
manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.46
--- manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst:1.45      Fri May 30 18:46:56 2003
+++ manuscripts/storm/short-paper.rst   Mon Jun 16 08:09:29 2003
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
     is short bit-string (often 160 bits)
     computed from a document, such that
     it is practically impossible
-    that two different documents will ever have the same hash.
+    to find two different documents that have the same hash.
     See, e.g., [schneier96appliedcryptography]_.
 
 .. Hashes allow reference to a single version of a
@@ -164,10 +164,10 @@
 Storm (for STORage Module)
 is a library for both local and distributed storage
 and publishing.
-On the lowest level, Storm stores data in *blocks*,
+On the lowest level, data is stored in *blocks*,
 which are immutable byte sequences.
-As opposed to file systems, Storm
-uses Freenet-like cryptographic identifiers.
+As opposed to file systems, 
+Freenet-like cryptographic identifiers are used.
 This may seem like a bad tradeoff: while these identifiers
 enable secure location-independent references, they 
 do not allow
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@
 
 .. pointers
 
-One of the key innovations in Storm is the use 
+One of the key innovations here is the use 
 of *pointer blocks*
 to build mutable documents on top of
 the lowest layer append-and-delete-only model.
@@ -216,10 +216,10 @@
     unless deleted explicitly. It is possible to
     store only the differences between versions.
 
-Storm in itself is *not* a P2P system.
-Storm is a data model and a library for using that data model
+Storm in itself is *not* a P2P system,
+but a data model and a library for using that data model
 with several different backends.
-Because of the simplicity of the lowest-level data model, Storm is able
+Because of the simplicity of the lowest-level data model, it is able
 to use several different modes of networking, from simply copying
 blocks to using a full-fledged P2P system
 as a library --- as of now, we are already successfully transferring
@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@
 stored on their local hard disk, and allowing them
 to conduct searches over the titles of all documents
 published on the underlying P2P network.
-For HTML, the Storm server is also able 
+For HTML, the server is also able 
 to dynamically insert backlinks:
 links to all other HTML pages on the network that
 link to *this* page.
@@ -305,17 +305,17 @@
 the namespaces for private and published documents,
 making hyperlinks between desktop
 documents more practical.
-While the core of Storm has been in use for almost
+While the core of the system has been in use for almost
 three years, the peer-to-peer subsystem has only recently
 been implemented.
 Currently, a number of systems can use Storm
 through an HTTP gateway or the KDE libraries. 
-Storm can also be used to implement the more ambitious
+It can also be used to implement the more ambitious
 Xanalogical hypertext model [#]_ [lukka02guids]_.
 Storm is available as Free Software from
 ``http://sv.gnu.org/projects/storm``.
 
-The main new features in Storm over previous systems 
+The main new features over previous systems 
 are the use of cryptographic identifiers for
 versioned hypermedia storage on the desktop;
 smooth integration with ordinary office applications;