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, preserving your privacy and security.

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

Download Tahoe-LAFS (v1.10)

Get Involved

• Join the tahoe-dev mailing list and subscribe to tahoe-announce
• Get the source code and start hacking.

Read Some Nice Docs

• index of docs
• Frequently Asked Questions

News

2014-05-20 — Linux Pro Magazine: “Yet the times seem to be catching up to the project, and Tahoe-LAFS seems well-poised to provide the security and privacy that people are starting to expect in the cloud.”

2014-02-02 — Spam filtering has been enabled on this Trac — if you have any problems with false-positives, please report them on #tahoe-lafs.

2013-10-31 — The next Tahoe-LAFS Summit to be held Nov. 11-13 in San Francisco

2013-09-06 — Tahoe-LAFS was featured on the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)'s tech blog

2013-10-14 — Tahoe-LAFS featured in InfoWorld

2013-10-04 — Tahoe-LAFS featured in New Republic

2013-09-27 — Tahoe-LAFS is one of the featured projects at the GNU 30th Birthday Hackathon

2013-07-31 — LeastAuthority.com announces their commercial LAFS service “S4”

See also the News page

Donate!

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About Us

Hack Tahoe-LAFS!

The Hack Tahoe-LAFS! contest. Find a security flaw and win a custom prize and a place in our Hall Of Fame!

Sponsorship

LeastAuthority.com sells service and support for LAFS as well as developing improvements for LAFS and contributing them back to the Free and Open Source project.

Google, Inc. sponsored Tahoe-LAFS through its Google Summer of Code program in 2010 and 2013.

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

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