Time, clocks, and the ordering of events in a distributed system
Communications of the ACM
Secure History Preservation Through Timeline Entanglement
Proceedings of the 11th USENIX Security Symposium
Probabilistic Reliable Dissemination in Large-Scale Systems
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Cryptographic support for secure logs on untrusted machines
SSYM'98 Proceedings of the 7th conference on USENIX Security Symposium - Volume 7
FeedTree: sharing web micronews with peer-to-peer event notification
IPTPS'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Peer-to-Peer Systems
Cuckoo: towards decentralized, socio-aware online microblogging services and data measurements
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Hot Topics in Planet-scale Measurement
p2pWeb: An open, decentralized infrastructure of Web servers for sharing ephemeral Web content
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
Twittering by cuckoo: decentralized and socio-aware online microblogging services
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
ReDS: reputation for directory services in P2P systems
Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research
Privacy-aware and scalable content dissemination in distributed social networks
ISWC'11 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on The semantic web - Volume Part II
Scaling microblogging services with divergent traffic demands
Middleware'11 Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IFIP/USENIX international conference on Middleware
Social networking with frientegrity: privacy and integrity with an untrusted provider
Security'12 Proceedings of the 21st USENIX conference on Security symposium
Scaling microblogging services with divergent traffic demands
Proceedings of the 12th International Middleware Conference
Enabling decentralised microblogging through P2PVPNs
International Journal of Security and Networks
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Microblogging, as exemplified by Twitter, is gaining popularity as a way to exchange short messages within social networks. However, the limitations of current microblog services--proprietary, centralized, and isolated-- threaten the long-term viability of this new medium. In this work we investigate the current state of microblogging and envision an open, distributed micropublishing service that addresses the weaknesses of today's systems. We draw on traces taken from Twitter to characterize the microblogging workload. Our proposal, fethr, connects micropublishers large and small in a single global network. New messages are gossiped among subscribers using a lightweight http-based protocol. Cryptographic measures protect authenticity and continuity of updates and prove message ordering even across providers.