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<p>MaidSafe is a technology company developing a completely secure, fully decentralised peer-to-peer network that could change the future of the Internet.</p>
<p>Eight years in development, MaidSafe's network is nearing the point of public beta testing and can be seen operating <a href="blog/vault-network-test/">in-house</a>. A significant portion of the company's code base is available for <a href="https://github.com/maidsafe"
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<p>Having started with minimal resources, the now 16-strong Scotland-based MaidSafe team has created a technology platform that is self-organising, distributed, server free, and requires no additional infrastructure beyond what we have today. Founder
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<p>Having raised £2.75 Million since the company's formation in 2006, Irvine believes MaidSafe is the only impregnable solution for privacy of personal data, claiming that "no matter how you encrypt your data, every existing method is
vulnerable". In what he touts as a "world first", the MaidSafe network "creates security by logic and mathematics. It operates autonomously and does not rely on intermediaries".</p>
<p>How MaidSafe works is that each individual user contributes capacity to what is effectively a global, public cloud. Personal information is uploaded onto the network with a key. Each file is then split into fragments that are scattered throughout
the network. Individually, these fragments are meaningless without the user's key, by contrast to the situation today, where data are stored in a complete or semi-complete form on random network nodes with associated metadata, making them
susceptible to interception and decryption. With MaidSafe, information is always stored in a disassembled form.</p>
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or nodes, and modelling projects between MaidSafe and <a href="https://connect.innovateuk.org/documents/3000302/6460200/IP11-016_Maidsafe_Stirling_CaseStudy/1cd4b97e-7805-48ad-b49f-e0049dc6de14;jsessionid=0E2DC08D526C707C51A1CADF29E8DD01.2"
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traffic elsewhere. This is how the system can prevent seizure by a virus, if someone was clever enough to make one work from a tiny fragment. The network performs constant integrity checks, ensuring data is in place and untarnished, so any
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went permanently offline, all within 20 milliseconds, and if the cache also failed.</p>
<p>One of the benefits of a decentralised system is the capacity to adapt in real-time to demand. Anyone who has experienced a site crash or tried to allocate network provisioning knows the guesswork involved in these activities. MaidSafe employs
opportunistic caching, which multiplies copies of popular data, meaning that the <a href="/libraries-routing">system</a> only gets faster with increasing traffic.</p>
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