From the website:
> The "Tahoe" project is a distributed filesystem, which safely stores
> files on multiple machines to protect against hardware failures.
> Cryptographic tools are used to ensure integrity and confidentiality,
> and a decentralized architecture minimizes single points of failure.
> Files can be accessed through a web interface or native system calls
> (via FUSE). Fine-grained sharing allows individual files or
> directories to be delegated by passing short URI-like strings through
> email. Tahoe grids are easy to set up, and can be used by a handful
of > friends or by a large company for thousands of customers.
This looks pretty interesting. I only heard about it a couple hours ago
and have been reading about it. It is a sort of peer to peer distributed
backup system relying on encryption and hashes etc. It isn't really
designed to be anonymous or uncensorable as far as I can tell but it
looks like it might be better in that area than just sending a copy of
the data somewhere else by traditional means. It does borrow a few ideas
from Freenet.
I have long liked the idea of a sort of backup co-op where a bunch of
friends make available a certain amount of disk space and the system
makes sure a copy of their data exists in two other locations at all
times. This seems to be along those lines.
http://allmydata.org/~warner/pycon-tahoe.html
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