Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn; Brian Warner

Paper 2012/524

Tahoe – The Least-Authority Filesystem

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn and 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.

Note: Tahoe-LAFS was cited in the keynote "The End of Crypto" by Jonathan Zittrain at Crypto 2012. This caused us to notice that we had never submitted it to eprint.iacr.org.

Metadata

Available format(s): PDF
Category: Applications
Publication info: Published elsewhere. StorageSS’08, October 31, 2008, Fairfax, Virginia, USA.
Keywords: key management applications
Contact author(s): zooko @ zooko com
History: 2012-09-07: received
Short URL: https://ia.cr/2012/524
License: CC BY

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}
}