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Tahoe-LAFS: The Least-Authority File System

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Tahoe-LAFS is a distributed storage system, started in 2006 as a robust back end for a personal-backup company named AllMyData (long since defunct). Before shutting down, the company open sourced the code, and now a community of hackers improves and maintains the project.

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© 2019 Mark Williams, Cory Benfield, Brian Warner, Moshe Zadka, Dustin Mitchell, Kevin Samuel, Pierre Tardy

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Williams, M. et al. (2019). Tahoe-LAFS: The Least-Authority File System. In: Expert Twisted. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3742-7_6

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