Diskster

• Student: Prashant Sarma (2003).
• Purpose: Design and implement a facility for storing files on space offered by servers anywhere on the internet and retrieving files to handheld devices.
• Method: A central file manager keeps track of what files are stored (and replicated) on what file servers, and the client uses peer-to-peer communication to access those files. All data are encrypted.
• What the student learned
  1. Java programming.
  2. MIDP Java package for hand-held computers.
  3. Some encryption techniques
  4. Documentation techniques; a writeup can be found with the tools.
  The resulting tools are available at this site.