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.

Download Tahoe-LAFS (v1.9.2)

...then read the quickstart instructions

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 security flaw which threatens your data we'll announce that here, too.
• The Dev page has everything you need to know to start hacking on the internals of Tahoe-LAFS.

Read Some Nice Docs

• The Doc page
• Frequently Asked Questions

News

2012-09-03 -- Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #37 is released

2012-07-14 -- Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #36 is released

2012-07-03 -- v1.9.2 released, fixing regressions in mutable files and directories

2012-03-30 -- Tahoe-LAFS Hack Fest in Boulder, Colorado and online

2012-01-12 -- v1.9.1 released, fixing security vulnerability

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!