-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 ========================================================== Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 19, December 12, 2011 ========================================================== Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN). Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure, distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_. If you would like to view the "new and improved" TWN, complete with pictures; please take a `look`_. .. _Tahoe-LAFS: http://tahoe-lafs.org .. _View TWN on the web: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/TahoeLAFSWeeklyNews .. _subscribe to TWN: http://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-lafs-weekly-news .. _look: http://tahoe-lafs.org/~marlowe/TWN18.html Announcements and News ====================== pycryptopp 0.6.0 Coming Soon - ---------------------------- The Tahoe-LAFS devs hope to release pycryptopp_ 0.6.0 on 12/16/2011. pycryptopp is a set of Python wrappers for a few of the best crypto algorithms from the `Crypto++`_ library. Below are some of the tickets this release will resolve: * `#35`_: python2+3 compatibility * `#40`_: XSalsa20 * `#42`_: Python HKDF * `#46`_ and `#47`_: AESb XSalsa20 * `#65`_: Microsoft compiler problems * `#70`_: passing IVs smaller than 16 bytes to pycryptopp.cipher.aes.AES uses uninitialized memory * `#75`_: ed25519 .. _pycryptopp: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp .. _`Crypto++`: http://cryptopp.com/ .. _`#35`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/35 .. _`#40`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/40 .. _`#42`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/42 .. _`#46`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/46 .. _`#47`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/47 .. _`#65`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/65 .. _`#70`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/70 .. _`#75`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/75 - From the tahoe-dev Mailing List =============================== Tahoe as a Backend Driver for iRODS - ----------------------------------- Jimmy Tang submitted the idea of `using tahoe as a backend driver for iRODS`_. iRODS_ is a data grid software system developed by the Data Intensive Cyber Environments research group (developers of the SRB, the Storage Resource Broker), and collaborators. The list discussed Jimmy's previous work with Tahoe-LAFS and `git-annex`_, paying attention particularly to potential performance bottlenecks. The prevailing hope is Jimmy will attempt the project to determine if the potential bottlenecks are real. .. _`using tahoe as a backend driver for iRODS`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-December/006872.html .. _iRODS: https://www.irods.org/index.php/IRODS:Data_Grids,_Digital_Libraries,_Persist... .. _`git-annex`: http://git-annex.branchable.com/ Tahoe Provisioning Tool - ----------------------- Jimmy Tang also submitted a patch for the `tahoe provisioning tool`_. The patch would update the provisioning tool to be more current with disk and user data sizes. Brian Warner |brian| contemplated removing the tool from the Tahoe executable and making it a standalone program. When Brian makes this change, he will implement Jimmy's patch. An example of Brian's work on this may be seen here_. .. _`tahoe provisioning tool`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2011-December/006876.html .. _here: https://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs/tree/deprovisioning Patch Needing Review of the Week ================================ There are five (5) tickets still needing review for 1.10: * `#393`_: mutable: implement MDMF * `#1265`_: New Visualizer is insufficiently labelled/documented (plus layout problem) * `#1398`_: make docs/performance.rst more precise and accurate * `#1566`_: if a stored share has a corrupt header, other shares held by that server for the file should still be accessible to clients * `#1593`_: the drop-upload dircap should be in BASEDIR/private/ .. _`#393`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/393 .. _`#1265`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1265 .. _`#1398`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1398 .. _`#1566`: http://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1566 .. _`#1593`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1593 - ---- *The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is published once a week by The Tahoe-LAFS* *Software Foundation, President and Treasurer: Peter Secor* |peter| *. 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