Changes between Version 1 and Version 2 of FAQ


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2009-10-19T23:06:29Z (15 years ago)
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zooko
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  • FAQ

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    1 Q: What is special about Tahoe-LAFS? Why should anyone care about it instead of [other distributed storage systems?
     1Q: What is special about Tahoe-LAFS? Why should anyone care about it instead of [other distributed storage systems http://allmydata.org/trac/tahoe/wiki/RelatedProjects#OtherProjects]?
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    33A: Tahoe-LAFS is the first Free Software/Open Source storage technology which offers ''provider-independent security''.  ''Provider-independent security'' means that the integrity and confidentiality of your files is guaranteed by mathematics computed on the client side, and is independent of the servers, which may be owned and operated by someone else.  To learn more, read [http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html our one-page explanation].