probably 12 hours a day, sometimes 18 while I am actively developing

1. I think that if we are going to spend 500-1000$ a month on servers we should be able to press the price a little.

2. I would like to be a part of the team working with the servers, but i have almost 2 weeks this month where I will be in Italy driving world finals in go kart, so I will not be online that 2 weeks.

Also I am no expert in driving servers, but I would like to give a hand if someone else is in charge (at least in the beginning) as the winter is coming and I don't have much else to do after work.


3. If we are to use 20+ servers, we would need to have the ability to ether clone 1 server out to all the other. Or have some service passing out the chances, from the master server, as it else would be to time consuming (and to big error rate)


Please bear in mind that i am a bit dyslexic.

Okay, I just read short about cssh, it seems pretty need.

So how long do the poll run before we are getting in touch with some of the server hosting company's?

jl777 just pm me when you have work ready :-)

I debugged savefile and restorefile, but only in loopback mode. so maybe this will just not work with the live network.

anyway I did small files and large files, encrypted, not encrypted, MofN (just 2 of 3) without encryption and MofN with encryption.

so those are all the cases and the savefile automatically does a restorefile with a compare to make it easier for testing.

I also updated to TweetNACL instead of the libnacl.a, much smaller source code and fully reviewed.
fixed a bunch of possible recursion bugs
a bunch of other things to, cant remember them all. I got setup to test locally and so I must have done over 100 builds as it is much faster when I dont have to upload to servers.

dont use files that are too big, there is no error handling for that, so limit to ~100kb

James

still need randombytes.o, but we can always extract that and compile it for different OS

Progress update!

Sending/receiving messages seems to be working well now. Teleport debugging starting very soon, probably this week.

We now have two new functions in SuperNET API: "savefile" and "restorefile"

These functions allow for the encryption of files and their secure storage. (Currently in RAM, soon in cloud)

In this line, I saved and encrypted the file m_unix:


Then it gave me some information, such as 'sharenrs' and an array of 'txid' values. These MUST be remembered for restoration of the file.

Then:


restored m_unix to a new file, newfile.

Think about the future applications that can be developed around this.  These files are also quite secure. An attacker would need to know your password, sharenrs, txids (in order), m, and n to restore your file.

It should support up to M-of-254 encryption.
Here is my output from saving m_unix with 200 of 254 encryption

http://pastebin.com/QfYrQ1Tx

However, restoring was too much for it. We are calling on testers now to test the current working limits of this value.

Matthew

P.S. if you aren't volunteering yet and would like to, head over to https://forum.thesupernet.org/index.php?topic=66.0 and get started testing!

The nacl folder should be in btcd/libjl777. Then navigate to build/lib/ and a few more folders to randombytes.o

The latest btcd repo no longer needs libnacl. However, you still need randombytes.o.

Matthew

Linux takes a while to get used to. Once you really understand how the terminal works and everything, it's a powerful tool.

So I get a load of messages when compiling (long process), ending in:
cp: cannot stat 'BitcoinDarkd': no such file or directory
./m_unix: line 20: ./BitcoinDarkd: No such file or directory

I'm also unclear what needs to go in the SuperNET.conf file.

Edit:
I've got two directories now, btcd and bitcoindark, due to the two sets of instructions.
There's also this file: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CGUgDAhimVhz7aHAnITeZGr2S4RiZPzF2LYZIWGbJ1E/edit
Looks like this is more comprehensive. Also that I do need to install a NXT wallet too.
I'm currently not using a VPS, just an old computer with Ubuntu on it. Is that a problem?
My purpose here is just to test and understand the SuperNET API calls to create some documentation, that's all.