Tech Stuff

Most of my work is only available under non-disclosure agreements More often than not, an NDA is required as a matter of course rather than because a given paper actually contains any proprietary data; most such documents contain information we want customers to see!

However, in a commercial orgnization it's considered a CLM to say that something is okay to distribute and later be deemed wrong (usually by someone who isn't, themselves, technical). Below I've included a couple recent papers that were sufficiently far reaching that they were approved for general release.

This first paper, called Collision and Preimage Resistance of the Centera Content Address, describes how Centera makes use of various hash functions as part of its intrinsic naming methodology.

Some notes on the collisions paper.

This second paper, called Efficient Long-Term Data Storage Utilizing Object Abstraction with Conent Addressing describes the role of abstraction with Centera.

Some notes on the abstraction paper.