Welcome to Tahoe-LAFS

Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, including preservation of your privacy and security.

A one-page summary explains the unique properties of this system.

Get Started

• Try Tahoe-LAFS now! live on the web. (More information on the TestGrid Page.)
• Use the quickstart instructions to download and run Tahoe-LAFS on your own computer.

Source Code

• Darcs checkout: darcs get --lazy http://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk tahoe-lafs
• git checkout (EXPERIMENTAL!): git clone git://github.com/warner/tahoe-lafs.git

Get Involved

• The tahoe-dev mailing list is the community forum.
• The tahoe-announce mailing list is a low-volume mailing list for announcements.
• The Dev page is the place to start hacking on Tahoe-LAFS.

Read Some Nice Docs

• The Doc page
• Frequently Asked Questions

News and interesting links

2010-12-14 -- EFF post Interesting mention in summary of useful tools when dealing with censorship.

2010-11-28 -- v1.8.1 Released! Several bugfixes, including a security fix and a performance improvement.

2010-05-25 -- Zooko presented Tahoe-LAFS at CONfidence 2010 in Kraków, Poland

See also the News page

Donate!

    You can donate to the Tahoe-LAFS project:

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Volunteers

About Us

Sponsorship

Allmydata, Inc. sponsored the Tahoe-LAFS project by providing hardware and data-center facilities along with the initial developer time. We are eternally grateful for their generous and public-spirited support.

Google, Inc. sponsored Tahoe-LAFS through its Google Summer of Code program 2010.

Atlas Networks provides dedicated server hosting for scale and performance testing.

Please contact secorp@allmydata.org if you would like to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS too!