Cool, congrats! :-) 2013/8/9 Zooko Wilcox-OHearn <[email protected]>: > Folks: > > This is what we've been working on! It is just a > commercially-supported Tahoe-LAFS service. It is strictly a ciphertext > storage service — we don't handle plaintext, and we don't handle keys, > ever. We don't even handle the source code of the client! We tell you > to go download that from Debian, Ubuntu, or https://Tahoe-LAFS.org. > > So, it is strictly for command-line loving power-users at this point. > Check it out! > > We're hard at work on a more user-friendly way to use it, inspired by > Dropbox, which we call "Magic Folders". You can sign up to be an alpha > tester of that, too, at https://LeastAuthority.com . > > Regards, > > Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn > > Founder, CEO, and Customer Support Rep > https://LeastAuthority.com > Freedom matters. > > ------- > > > > ============================================================ > LeastAuthority.com Announces A PRISM-Proof Storage Service > ============================================================ > > Wednesday, July 31, 2013 > > `LeastAuthority.com`_ today announced “Simple Secure Storage Service > (S4)”, a backup service that encrypts your files to protect them from > the prying eyes of spies and criminals. > > .. _LeastAuthority.com: https://LeastAuthority.com > > “People deserve privacy and security in the digital data that make up > our daily lives.” said the company's founder and CEO, Zooko > Wilcox-O'Hearn. “As an individual or a business, you shouldn't have to > give up control over your data in order to get the benefits of cloud > storage.” > > verifiable end-to-end security > ------------------------------ > > The Simple Secure Storage Service offers *verifiable* end-to-end security. > > It offers “end-to-end security” because all of the customer's data is > encrypted locally — on the customer's own personal computer — before > it is uploaded to the cloud. During its stay in the cloud, it cannot > be decrypted by LeastAuthority.com, nor by anyone else, without the > decryption key which is held only by the customer. > > S4 offers “*verifiable* end-to-end security” because all of the source > code that makes up the Simple Secure Storage Service is published for > everyone to see. Not only is the source code publicly visible, but it > also comes with Free (Libre) and Open Source rights granted to the > public allowing anyone to inspect the source code, experiment on it, > alter it, and even to distribute their own version of it and to sell > commercial services. > > Wilcox-O'Hearn says “If you rely on closed-source, proprietary > software, then you're just taking the vendor's word for it that it > actually provides the end-to-end security that they claim. As the > PRISM scandal shows, that claim is sometimes a lie.” > > The web site of LeastAuthority.com proudly states “We can never see > your data, and you can always see our code.”. > > trusted by experts > ------------------ > > The Simple Secure Storage Service is built on a technology named > “Least-Authority File System (LAFS)”. LAFS has been studied and used > by computer scientists, hackers, Free and Open Source software > developers, activists, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects > Agency, and the U.S. National Security Agency. > > The design has been published in a peer-reviewed scientific workshop: > *Wilcox-O'Hearn, Zooko, and Brian Warner. “Tahoe: the least-authority > filesystem.” Proceedings of the 4th ACM international workshop on > Storage security and survivability. ACM, 2008.* > http://eprint.iacr.org/2012/524.pdf > > It has been cited in more than 50 scientific research papers, and has > received plaudits from the U.S. Comprehensive National Cybersecurity > Initiative, which stated: “Systems like Least-Authority File System > are making these methods immediately usable for securely and availably > storing files at rest; we propose that the methods be further > reviewed, written up, and strongly evangelized as best practices in > both government and industry.” > > Dr. Richard Stallman, President of the Free Software Foundation > (https://fsf.org/) said “Free/Libre software is software that the > users control. If you use only free/libre software, you control your > local computing — but using the Internet raises other issues of > freedom and privacy, which many network services don't respect. The > Simple Secure Storage Service (S4) is an example of a network service > that does respect your freedom and privacy.” > > Jacob Appelbaum, Tor project developer (https://www.torproject.org/) > and WikiLeaks volunteer (http://wikileaks.org/), said “LAFS's design > acknowledges the importance of verifiable end-to-end security through > cryptography, Free/Libre release of software and transparent > peer-reviewed system design.” > > The LAFS software is already packaged in several widely-used operating > systems such as Debian GNU/Linux and Ubuntu. > > https://LeastAuthority.com > > _______________________________________________ > p2p-hackers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.zooko.com/mailman/listinfo/p2p-hackers >
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