I'm thinking (and I think wrong quite often) that this might make Tahoe-LAFS into something that could generate interest, possible funding, maybe even something like Google Summer of Code funding. ---- - Think carefully. - Contra mundum - "Against the world" (St. Athanasius) - Credo ut intelliga - "I believe that I may know" (St. Augustin of Hippo)
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Brian Warner <[email protected]> wrote: > Jody Harris wrote: > > So, has any work been done on an HTML-embeddable Java client? > > > > Is this even possible? > > > > It would be a publisher's dream (one of them, anyway) to be able to > > publish through a Tahoe-LAFS cloud with a Java client that could connect > > to the introducer for downloading content without having to funnel the > > data through a central server. > > That'd be pretty cool. Personally, I've been thinking about doing it in > javascript, as a Firefox extension, which would enable things like > tahoe: URLs embedded in HTML hrefs. We've got a lot of things to fix > before either one is feasible.. switching away from Foolscap for the > storage-server protocol, switching from shared secrets to ECDSA signed > messages for storage-server operations, getting our favorite crypto > primitives and FEC libraries available from the target language, > defining the top-level API that this embedded Tahoe component offers to > something higher-up in the browser, etc. > > cheers, > -Brian > _______________________________________________ > tahoe-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://allmydata.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tahoe-dev >
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