Newest Contributor

Marcus Wanner is the newest contributor to Tahoe-LAFS. He is contributing the move button to the web interface. You will see the move button next to the rename button in the directory view of the web interface. Marcus' contribution needs review at ticket number 1579. Marcus runs a node for the Virginia Tech Linux and Unix Users Group (VTLUUG) Tahoe-LAFS grid. Welcome to the team, Marcus.

1.8.3 Being Backported

Ubuntu has a ticket to backport 1.8.3 for Lucid, Maverick and Natty. The backport will make available to users of Lucid, Maverick and Natty, within the library of Ubuntu-provided packages, the features that were added between their current version and 1.8.3.

Tahoe-LAFS Inspired Students' Thesis

Three students from Norwegian University of Science and Technology thanked Tahoe-LAFS in their thesis.

"We would like to thank all contributors of code and documentation to the open source software Tahoe-LAFS, which has given us great inspiration and building blocks for our thesis.” [1]

It appears the students implemented a subset of Tahoe-LAFS, including mutable directories and separate read- and write- caps in Java and tested it on Android. They implement the server side portion in Python.

LAE Sponsors pycryptopp Hacking

Taking advantage of Least Authority Enterprises (LAE) allowing employees to work on open source projects on Fridays, Zooko announced a pycryptopp hackaday on Nov. 25. Below is a list of items on the hackaday todo list:

1. Review and merge Brian's patch to add Ed25519 signatures: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/75
2. Review and merge Yu Xue's patches to add:
   1. XSalsa20: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/40
   2. Python HMAC: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/41
   3. Python HKDF: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/42
   4. combined AES⊕XSalsa20: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/46, https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/47
   5. Comb4P: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/50
   6. curve25519: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/71
3. See if Billy Earney or someone else will volunteer to port pycryptopp to "both Python 2 and Python 3 compatibility": https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/35
4. Look at the buildbot issues, solicit new volunteers to run buildslaves on more platforms: https://tahoe-lafs.org/buildbot-pycryptopp/
5. Look into alleged miscompilation by Microsoft compiler, try to devise defensive strategy, push someone else (the Crypto++ project) to devise defensive strategy, or just close this ticket as "wontfix": https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/65
6. Fix a few small bugs, e.g.: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/pycryptopp/ticket/70
7. See if we can replace Twisted conch's use of pycrypto with pycryptopp: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/ticket/4633