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Tahoe-LAFS is a distributed filesystem which provides redundancy and security for files.
=FAQs=
Technical documentation on tahoe can be found at its website. However, for the prospective user, here's a simple explanation in Q&A format:
==What does it do?==
You set up a node with a few hundred gigs of free space. Then, you put files in it. It encrypts them and puts parts of them on 10 of the nodes in such a way as to be able to recover the entire file even if up to 7 of the nodes are unavailable.
==But what if I don't want people seeing my files?==
They're encrypted, remember? Each file has an automatically generated key which also tells where the file is located. You can share this "filecap" with anyone else you'd like to see the file.
TBC
=FAQs=
Technical documentation on tahoe can be found at its website. However, for the prospective user, here's a simple explanation in Q&A format:
==What does it do?==
You set up a node with a few hundred gigs of free space. Then, you put files in it. It encrypts them and puts parts of them on 10 of the nodes in such a way as to be able to recover the entire file even if up to 7 of the nodes are unavailable.
==But what if I don't want people seeing my files?==
They're encrypted, remember? Each file has an automatically generated key which also tells where the file is located. You can share this "filecap" with anyone else you'd like to see the file.
TBC
