Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn; Brian Warner

Paper 2012/524 Original: eprint.iacr.org/2012/524 ↗

Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn

Brian Warner

Abstract

Tahoe is a system for secure, distributed storage. It uses capabilities for access control, cryptography for confidentiality and integrity, and erasure coding for fault-tolerance. It has been deployed in a commercial backup service and is currently operational. The implementation is Open Source.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Applications
Publication info: Preprint.
History: 2012-09-07: last updated; 2012-09-07: published
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2012/524
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

BibTeX

@misc{cryptoeprint:2012/524,
      author = {Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn and Brian Warner},
      title = {Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem},
      howpublished = {Cryptology {ePrint} Archive, Paper 2012/524},
      year = {2012},
      url = {https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/524}
}