CloudCoin.Global
CloudCoin.Global
To understand CloudCoin, the first thing you must do is forget all you know about Blockchain and know the RAIDA. You must think in terms of cash. CloudCoins are files like PNG files. While the cash in your wallet is written on paper using methods that detere counterfeiting, Cloudcoins are written in files using methods the make counterfeiting impossible. This is a huge advancement in technology!
With cash, we know we have it because we can count the paper in our wallets and purses. With CloudCoin we know we have it because we can count the files on our storage devices.
Cash does not require user accounts, logins or ledgers. Cash is 100% private. Cash uses integers like 1s, 5s and 100s. Cash is thef resistant because you can hide it in different places
This is the same with CloudCoin. CloudCoin is the world's first true digital cash! And it is revolutionairy.
When you receive CloudCoins, you must run them through a counterfeit detection system called RAIDA (Redundant Array of Independent Detection Agents). Once you know your CloudCoins are authentic, you can store them in a folder so you can keep track of them. We have software that allows you do do this process. And we also have a bank called Skywallet that allows you to have access to your CloudCoins anywhere and easily send and receive them from others.
The RAIDA was created after the Computer Scientist Sean Worthington realized that what made the Blockchain special is that it had "Data Supremacy." Data supremacy is when a database cannot be brought down, tampered with or snooped on by Hackers, Governments, Tech Giants, Quantum Computers and even Artificial Intelligence. The Blockchain has this to a limited degree.
Worthington looked around for other databases that had Data Supremacy. The only one he could find is the Root DNS Servers. The Root DNS servers have never gone down since the day they were created in 1985. They are able to handle the entire worlds requests for name resolution (changing URLs to IP Addresses) and they use very little electricity.
The RAIDA would be like the root DNS servers except there would be 25 RAIDA instead of the 13 DNS roots. The RAIDA would be located in 20 different countries and would have no systemic risk of failure. Ultimatley, we want RAIDA in space so that no worldly power can stop it. We only need one of the 25 to work.
Here is the process for exchanging CloudCoins among users.
The Owner a CloudCoin has the CloudCoin file. The file has twenty five Authenticity Numbers that are like passwords.
To buy something, the Owner gives the CloudCoin file with the Authenticity Numbers to the Candidate Owner. Now both the Owner and the Candidate Owner have the Authenticity Numbers.
Anyone who has the Authenticity Numbers can change them. The Candidate Owner changes the Authenticity Numbers to new numbers. Now the Owner no longer has the Authenticity Numbers and the Candidate Owner becomes the New Owner.
Each RAIDA trusts of few other "Neighbour RAIDA". If one RAIDA goes down or is compromised, another RAIDA can be brought up to take its place. The Neighbour RAIDA will help the new RAIDA recover its data. This uses a system that we call Triple Kerberous in which the CloudCoin owner can collect "tickets" from neighbour RAIDA and give them to the RAIDA that does not trust the CloudCoin.
Governance is needed when decisions need to be made. During the development phase of CloudCoin, the code that the RAIDA has on it needed to be decided. Also, the people who would act as Administrators needed to be decided too. However, after the development phase, there are no decisions that need to be made. All code is locked and RAIDA Admins have their positions for life and can hand their RAIDA to hteir Heirs. There is no Governance needed.
Our most important security feature is our people. We only allow internationally recognized Systems Engineers to be members of the Sentinels. RAIDA Admins have professional certifications and long histories of successful work experience. No people with criminal records or of low moral repute are allowed. RAIDA Admins must also pass a philisophical exam that shows them to be libertarians.
Unlike Blockchain that funds its Administration through mining, the RAIDA does not allow for any monetary inflation and the amount of coins is fixed. RAIDA Admins are funded by mining lost coins (coins that have not been used for over 5 years.
The essence of money is that it cannot be counterfeited. The purpose of money is to help us economize. The value of money is based on its physical and logical integrity (trust). CloudCoin take trust to the highest level ever. Using the patent-pending RAIDA technologies (The patent is to keep others from locking us out of the technology), independent system administrators from all around the world leverage thousands of servers and networks to create an unbreakable system that nobody and nothing can dictate. Note that the RAIDA does not create, store, transmit, track or broker CloudCoins or eCurrency. The only function of the each RAIDA Cloud is to detect the authenticity of a CloudCoin.
We start by building on the TCP/IP protocol that forms the Internet. This technology was developed in order to allow messaging even while nuclear bombs wipe out major parts of the world's communication networks. TPC/IP is a nuclear-prof technology. The Internet has never gone down on a global scale.
The RAIDA can also use UDP. This reduces the to comunicate with the RAIDA to less than 1 second.
On top of this, we use the SSL technology. HTTPS SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private and integral. SSL allows you to know that the servers you connect to are in fact the servers that you want to connect to. RAIDA only uses HTTP Strict Transport Security and only passes data that is impossible to infer. RAIDA's HTTPS usage is scientifically un-hackable and there are no known vulnerabilities.
The RAIDA is the only crypto currency and payment system in the world that can use the quantum safe AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). This is the standard that the US Government uses and, unlike SSL, it is quantum safe. The reason that the RAIDA can use this is because the CloudCoin and the RAIDA have a shared secret that can be used to encrypt the traffic. This shared secret is the coin's Authentiticy Numbers.
A content delivery network (CDN) is a system of distributed servers (network) that deliver webpages and other Web content to a user based on the geographic locations of the user, the origin of the webpage and a content delivery server. Our CDN also provides DDoS protection (Our enterprise-class DDoS protection network has 20 times more capacity than the largest DDoS attack ever recorded.) WAF (Web Application Firewall) works with 4 million other sites to automatically block threats, dedicated SSL protection. It also provides high performance, reliability and protects the RAIDA from any type of hackers.
The Guardians are over 25 servers located all around the world that provide backup CDN and DNS services to the RAIDA. They also handle email for lost coin recovery. They also will allow us to contact the RAIDA through firewalls.
Each CloudCoin has 400 bytes of random numbers embedded in them. These 400 bytes are divided into 25 slices (also called stripes). Each slice of numbers is called an AN (Authenticity Number). There are 25 RAIDA clouds called Sentinels who provide RAIDA Resolution. Some of the Sentinels have "shards" and know the secret locations (IP addresses) of 32 RAIDA clusters (Detection Agents). Each of the 32 RAIDA clusters is designed to handle one or more of the "Shards." There are a total of 800 RAIDA Shards and 25 RAIDA Sentinels per RAIDA network.
Each RAIDA network is composed of many redundant servers, networks and databases. Such arrangements of hardware are often referred to as Clouds. No matter what components fail or are attacked, the system keeps going. The databases are mirrored in several different physical locations. There are teams of webservers for high availability. Multiple locations allow for catastrophic failures (such as a meteor strike), yet the system can stay operational. It is highly likely that the RAIDA Clouds will become the target of thousands of highly trained hackers from around the world. Governments may move to suppress RAIDA servers. It is also likely that the RAIDA will be targeted for Denial-of-Service attacks by the worst attackers imaginable. However, the RAIDA Clouds will survive.
Each Sentinel and Detection Agent is controlled by a different person. Each Sentinel may use a different algorithm for dividing the load among the detection agents. Some Sentinels may shard (divide by rows) the CloudCoin authentication data between the detection agents. Some Sentinels may use a hash or random lookup table to divide the load. Detection Agents may not know what money they are used to detect. When random lookup tables are used, it is impossible for RAIDA administrators to assemble the CloudCoins back together. Only Sentinel could do this.
The RAIDA protocol is an extremely light protocol and only requires milliseconds to execute and sends and receives just a few hundred bytes of data. Clients send authenticity requests in parallel to 25 RAIDA clouds. Thanks to the speed of light, it only takes milliseconds for signals to travel to the other-side of the planet and back. Each RAIDA cloud responds with either "pass" or "fail". The RAIDA protocol requires no sessions or cookies. The conditional GET method is used to reduce unnecessary network traffic.
| Field | Sample |
|---|---|
| Serial Number | 56298 |
| Authenticy Number | D32BCE8DF8926EE00E1233D8C6B1363C |
| Proposed Authenticy Number | ACC42CDF54A5E06A59B282799408B4B3 |
| Denomination | 1 |
https://RAIDA1.cloudcoin.global/service/detect.html?sn=56298&an=D32BCE8DF8926EE00E1233D8C6B1363C&pan=ACC42CDF54A5E06A59B282799408B4B3&denomination=1| Field | Sample |
|---|---|
| Server Name | RAIDA-12 |
| Status | pass |
| Message | The unit presented is an authentic 1 unit CloudCoin. |
| Time | 2016-09-18 15:08:07 |
{
"server":"RAIDA-12",
"status":"pass",
"message":"Authentic: The unit presented is an authentic 1 unit CloudCoin.",
"time":"2016-09-18 15:08:07"
}Sometimes, the Sentinels will be unavailable. When unavailable, Sentinels are restored or replaced, the CloudCoins can repair them because all the authenticity data is stored in the CloudCoins themselves. The repair protocol cloud be called "Triple Kerberos" because it uses three tickets. Kerberos is a network authentication protocol that works on the basis of 'tickets' to allow nodes communicating over a non-secure network to prove their identity to one another in a secure manner. It is designed to provide strong authentication for client/server applications by using secret-key cryptography.
The RAIDA Self-Repair Protocol requires the CloudCoin owner to get tickets from three other RAIDA Sentinels. These Sentinels must be trusted by the fracked Sentinel that needs to be repaired, and the tickets must come from a very specific triad of Sentinels. When the fracked Sentinel is presented with the three tickets, it will confirm their authenticity by contacting the trusted servers themselves.
| Field | Sample |
|---|---|
| Serial Number | 56298 |
| Authenticy Number | D32BCE8DF8926EE00E1233D8C6B1363C |
| Proposed Authenticy Number | ACC42CDF54A5E06A59B282799408B4B3 |
| Denomination | 1 |
https://RAIDA1.cloudcoin.global/service/detect.html?sn=56298&an=D32BCE8DF8926EE00E1233D8C6B1363C&pan=ACC42CDF54A5E06A59B282799408B4B3&denomination=1| Field | Sample |
|---|---|
| Server Name | RAIDA-12 |
| Status | pass |
| Message | The unit presented is an authentic 1 unit CloudCoin. |
| Time | 2016-09-18 15:08:07 |
{
"server":"RAIDA-12",
"status":"pass",
"message":"Authentic: The unit presented is an authentic 1 unit CloudCoin.",
"time":"2016-09-18 15:08:07"
}