Censorship resistant publishing through document entanglements

Summary form only given. Today, most documents available over the the Internet are easy to censor. Each document can usually be traced back to a specific host or even the individual responsible for publishing the document. Someone wishing to censor a document can use the courts, threats, or some other means to force the host administrator or author to delete a particular file. Clearly, a censorship resistant system must replicate a published document across many hosts. We propose a system, named Tangler, that we believe provides some incentive to retain such documents and solves the document naming problem. Tangler is a censorship resistant distributed file system that employs a unique document storage mechanism.