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Thanks! I'm very proud of our work in this audit.

You win a prize for reading to the end before posting!

Hi Bryan: good job experimenting to improve your own health and happiness, and thanks for posting so others can learn from your experiments. My wife and I have started a blog about…

You know, I have to admit that the main reason academic researchers don't appreciate the sophisticated proof-of-work/proof-of-retrievability features in Tahoe-LAFS is that I didn't…

Hi -- I'm one of the authors of Tahoe-LAFS. I haven't read your RACS paper before, but it looks pretty good. I appreciate the emphasis on real-world economics and on the costs of v…

> how many of the supported options boil down to Amazon S3? That's a really good question. Diego's experiment used: • memopal: I don't know if it uses S3 • SugarSync: I don't know …

Tahoe-LAFS performance leaves a lot to be desired, for various reasons, but the erasure-coding levels (i.e. the degree of distribution of each file via "RAID"-like math) aren't nec…

Amen!! Patrick "marlowe" McDonald has really given us a gift by publishing the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News every week. We're coming up on the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News one-year anniversary…

See screenshots: http://www.sickness.it/crazycloudexperiment1.png and http://www.sickness.it/crazycloudexperiment2.png from Diego "sickness" Righi's notes: http://www.sickness.it/c…

Cool. I like ceph and I'm happy to hear about ceph.com. Good luck to them.

Is ceph.com more interesting than Least Authority Enterprises, and if so why? Thanks. :-)

I'm working on a Free/Open Source startup named "Least Authority Enterprises". We contribute all of our work (so far) to the Tahoe-LAFS project and we sell secure cloud storage ser…

By the way, I should point out that our overall strategy of how to deal with "packaging and installation" issues is to use automation. The creation of packages such as Python .egg'…

Was this with our most recent release -- Tahoe v1.4.1? Could you tell me more about what went wrong? Perhaps by opening a ticket on http://allmydata.org so that the other people wh…

If you find a security flaw in Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem, we'll give you a customized t-shirt with a big thank-you from us and a working copy of your exploit printed on…

If you find a security flaw in Tahoe, the Least-Authority Filesystem, we'll give you a t-shirt with a big Thank You from us and a working copy of your exploit printed on the front.…

This bug was the last straw for why I stopped using the pycrypto library and wrote my own Python wrappers about Crypto++: http://allmydata.org/trac/pycryptopp