Changes between Version 97 and Version 98 of FAQ

Timestamp:

2013-07-29T10:30:50Z (11 years ago)

Author:

daira

Comment:

Thinko

FAQ

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 Erasure coding should not be confused with "secret sharing", which has the additional security property that fewer than {{{K}}} servers cannot recover any information about the data. Tahoe-LAFS' erasure coding does not have this property, and does not need to have it because we rely on secret-key encryption (using a key in the read cap) for confidentiality.
 
-"Information Dispersal Code" (IDA) can refer either to an erasure code or a secret sharing algorithm depending on context, so we prefer not to use that term.
+"Information Dispersal Algorithm" (IDA) can refer either to an erasure code or a secret sharing algorithm depending on context, so we prefer not to use that term.
 
 '''[=#Q3_disable_encryption Q3:] Is there a way to disable the encryption for content which isn't secret? Won't that save a lot of CPU cycles?'''