Welcome to Allmydata "Tahoe"

The Allmydata "Tahoe" project is a secure, distributed, fault-tolerant storage grid, available under a free-software licence.

You can store files in the grid and retrieve them with a cryptographically generated URI that securely identifies and decrypts that file. You can also organize files with filenames and directories, in the familiar style. The basic idea is that the data in this storage grid is spread over all participating nodes, using an algorithm that can recover the data even if a majority of the nodes are no longer available.

The current code base is targeted at hackers and users who are willing to use a minimal, text-oriented web user interface.

Get Started

The README file tells how to install the software, how to run a node than can upload and download files, and how to set up your own private grid. Information how to connect to the public test grid operated by ​Allmydata, Inc. can be found on the TestGrid page.

Get Involved

The tahoe-dev mailing list is the community forum for discussion of Tahoe design, implementation, and usage.

The Dev page is the place to start hacking on Tahoe. It has development tools (such as code coverage and patch browsing) and documentation.

Latest News

2007-09-24 -- Allmydata Tahoe v0.6 released!

This release features improved packaging (now binary packages for easier installation by a wider range of users), performance, reliability, and potential future-compatibility.

Please see the Release Notes.

other current news

The News page has other current news, blogs, etc.

Documentation

See the Doc page for explanation of how Tahoe works.

Licence

As per the COPYING file, Tahoe is offered under the GNU General Public License (v2 or later), with the added permission that, if you become obligated to release a derived work under this licence (as per section 2.b), you may delay the fulfillment of this obligation for up to 12 months. If you are obligated to release code under section 2.b of this licence, such code must be released under these same terms including the 12-month grace period clause.

Navigating This Web Site

See TracStartingPoints for how to use this bug tracker/source code browser/wiki.

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