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posted by martyb on Friday December 11 2015, @07:21AM   Printer-friendly
from the hidden-in-plain-site dept.

From the fine folks over at net-security.org comes this interesting announcement:

ZeroDB, an end-to-end encrypted database whose release was announced earlier this year, is now open source.

Developers MacLane Wilkison and Michael Egorov changed the license from proprietary to AGPLv3 on Monday, and invited the public to use it: "Try it, build awesome things with it, break it. Then tell us about it."

ZeroDB is based on the eponymous protocol that allows end-to-end encrypted queries, which in turn allows encrypted data to be stored on untrusted servers (e.g. in a public cloud).

[...] "In ZeroDB, the client is responsible for the database logic. Data encryption, decryption and compression also happen client side. Therefore, the server never has any knowledge about the data, its structure or order," it is explained in the documentation.

"Since the server has no insight into the nature of the data, the risk of a server-side data breach is eliminated. Even if attackers successfully infiltrate the server, they won't have access to the cleartext data," the developers pointed out.

No, NCommander, we don't need to switch databases twice in a year. Wait till 2016 at least.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @12:00PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @12:00PM (#274929)

    It's the reading of the term "import" which suggests it applies when incorporated as part of a larger distribution.

    When has "import" ever been used to mean "incorporated as part of a larger distribution" in a legal context? The GPL is a legal document, not a programming one.

    Personally, I can't see how "import" in this context could be interpreted as meaning anything other than "transfer from one legal jurisdiction to another". For example: "libfoo is developed and licensed for the EU. If you wish to use libfoo in the US, you must license our patents or we will sue".