The Tahoe Least Authority File System is a peer-to-peer system that stores data redundantly with agents who cannot read the data contents. These agents are granted close to the *minimum* authority necessary to support requests about the data. This design is motivated by the "Principle of Least Authority". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_least_authority This Thursday (2012-12-06) at 19:00 PST, members of the Tahoe community will have a physical meetup at "The Big Noisebridge Table". We'll project a basic state diagram (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_diagram) depicting the behaviour of the distributed "Lease Database" that the "storage server" agents in the Tahoe network use to manage the encrypted data that they store. During our meeting we'll add correct and useful content to the diagram. An overview of the design, including the basic state diagram, can be found here: https://github.com/davidsarah/tahoe-lafs/blob/1819-cloud-merge/docs/proposed... For a general introduction to Tahoe check this out: https://tahoe-lafs.org Gimme the code!! To understand the behavior of the "lease data base" we'll be inspecting this code (you might want to look at this before Thursday!): https://github.com/davidsarah/tahoe-lafs/tree/master/src/allmydata/ storage/leasedb.py storage/account.py storage/accountant.py storage/accounting_crawler.py storage/server.py (less important) No punch... no pie... just a group building a better Information Super Highway (a series of tubes in The Cyber)! -- Za <--> X8 A question: "What can I buy with bitcoin?" A better question: "What can I sell _for_ bitcoin?" "I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public" *-- Bradley Manning* http://allmydata.org _______________________________________________ tahoe-dev mailing list tahoe-dev@tahoe-lafs.org https://tahoe-lafs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE