[tahoe-dev] Tahoe, The Least Authority File System, Thursday Night Hack Meet

[Tony Arcieri]

Wish I could come to this as it sounds awesome. I'm busy that day though :(

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Josh Wilcox <wilcoxjg at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/leasedb.rst
>
> 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 <--> ظ
> A question:  "What can I buy with bitcoin?"
> A better question:   "What can I sell _for_ bitcoin?"
>
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> without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public" --
> Bradley Manning
>
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Tony Arcieri