Private Data Addresses

One of the premises of Storj is that data is secure and private. In the previous two examples we demonstrated a template that could be used in a public manner. If I wanted to, for example, share a picture of a cat with my friend Alice, the previous examples would work just fine. This does not, however, transfer over well if I wanted to backup financial information or unfinished novel. While the file itself will be encrypted, an observer who knows our public address could

Garbage Data

We don't only have to send valid meta data about our files to our private data address. We can send encrypted transactions that only contain garbage data. In this way if anyone who wants to browse your public address will see hundreds of encrypted transactions, but only a dozen might actually be valid. In this way we can hide our data in plain sight with many layers of encryption to protect us.

To break into our files, an attacker would have to first find our data address, break the PGP key, and then also break the convergently encrypted file(this is only possible if you already have the file).