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+ChronoShare: Decentralized File Sharing Over NDN
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+ChronoShare provides services similar to Dropbox, but in a decentralized way.
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+It uses [ChronoSync](http://www.named-data.net/techreport/TR008-chronos.pdf) library to synchronize the operations to the shared-folder and levels NDN's advantage of natural multicast support. The sharing process is completely decentralized, but it is also very easy to add a permanent storage server.
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+ChronoShare also provides file history and basic version control.
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+To see more details about ChronoShare design, click [here](http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/~zhenkai/chronoshare.pdf).
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