by Lydia Ludmila [Featured Content]
It goes without saying that data confidentiality is one of the hottest topics of the decade. From mega scandals of leaked information to a constant stream of news about large corporations being victims of ransomware, there’s undeniably something lacking in the way data is stored traditionally. For the most part, at least.
The truth is that most users rely on traditional cloud infrastructure. Unfortunately, it has many central points of failure and trust, such as:
- The centralized nature of the Domain Name System (DNS)
- The dependency on one or numerous cloud providers for service availability
- Centralized storage of user information
Blockchain technology and cryptography are quickly becoming a topic that many discuss mainly for its potential to disrupt a range of traditional services – data storage and cloud computing are among them.
Etherenity CLOUD is a project that envisions cloud computing infrastructure to be an environment where the data of users is hosted on a range of systems in a manner that’s both confidential and heavily encrypted. From home computers to professional-grade datacenters, any kind of hardware could be used with Ethernity CLOUD and trust that the information is private while in transit and at rest.
Ethernity CLOUD: What is it all about?
If one thing is clear, it’s that centralized data servers have become a primary target for hackers. Less than two weeks ago, JBS – the world’s largest meat producer, paid $11 million in Bitcoin to ransomware hackers who successfully locked the company out of their data.
Ethernity CLOUD’s infrastructure software is created on top of open-source services and technologies, and the migration from standard, centralized cloud providers to it is relatively simple. This comes as a difference to other decentralized hosting solutions, which tend to be rather complex in their attempts to reinvent the wheel.
The main purpose of the project is to provide blockchain infrastructure to participants so they can run cloud software in a decentralized manner, to rent out their idle or extra hardware, and so forth – all this while also providing incentives for decentralized cloud application developers.
Data Confidentiality and Encryption
Ethernity CLOUD’s architecture is designed in a way to favor the most secure encryption and hashing algorithms. At the same time, it keeps the overhead low in order to prevent performance degradation.
The information that’s being exchanged across the network is encrypted, and the ecosystem is designed in a way that prevents the decryption of information in transit, even with the most advanced cryptographic attacks, including brute forcing and collusion.
Naturally, the encryption of the data at rest is also equally important to Ethernity CLOUD, and it was designed on a trustless business model. The information is stored across the network. However, decentralized cloud service providers are unable to access, read, modify, or even interfere in any way with the node that runs on their machine.
Members of the network, by default, are considered untrustworthy – as it is with other blockchain networks. The software code enforces and ensures the trust, which reassures the decentralized cloud users about the safety of their data.
In turn, all of the above provides ground for the following benefits:
- Ethernity CLOUD is crucial for freedom of speech in the current internet environment where censorship is prevalent.
- It can be used as a base infrastructure for an online library.
- It can be the answer to competitive decentralized services or web applications that demand high availability.
- Can guarantee high availability of online resources through avoiding single points of failure.
Read more about Ethernity CLOUD – here.
