Distributed File System prof. Giovanni Chiola

Integrity


Files can be added/deleted/modified by the owner.
In principle nobody else should modify data, but this property is difficult to guarantee in a distributed system, where some of the components might be outside physical control.
If someone else modifies data the integrity check must fail, so that one can tell whether data is original or not.
Digital signatures can be used for integrity check on remote servers.

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