Welcome to The Least Authority File System

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

• Use the quickstart instructions to download and run Tahoe-LAFS on your own computer.
• Go to the Dev page to get source code, and start hacking on Tahoe-LAFS.

Get Involved

• The tahoe-dev mailing list is the community forum.
• The tahoe-announce mailing list is a low-volume mailing list for announcements. Every few months we announce a new release. If we find a secure flaw which threatens your data we'll announce that here, too.
• The Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News is the community newsletter.

Read Some Nice Docs

• The Doc page
• Tahoe – The Least-Authority File System (the introduction to Tahoe-LAFS for discriminating hackers)
• Frequently Asked Questions

News

2011-09-06 -- Tahoe Weekly News #13 is released

2011-08-30 -- TWN #12 is released

2011-08-25 -- 1.9.0alpha1 available for testing

2011-08-14 -- TWN #11 is released

2011-07-24 -- The pubgrid is no longer available

2011-06-27 -- The Tahoe-LAFS Summit, June 27 - 30, San Francisco: Come socialize, share ideas, and hack on code! See the Summit Page

2011-01-30 -- v1.8.2 Released! Now compatible with Twisted-10.2.

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

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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!