[tahoe-dev] Tahoe illustration suggestion

[Peter Secor]

Very cool!

I ran through a couple examples and after corrupting more than 4 shares 
it was unable to recover. What expansion factor is being used for this 
example?

Talk soon,
Peter

Drew Perttula wrote:
> Peter Secor wrote:
>>    The goal is to show somebody who is unfamiliar with the Tahoe project 
>> just how secure and robust it is. To do this, I imagined that first you 
>> can go to a web page and enter some plaintext. Then, you hit the 
>> "encrypt" button and it spits out ciphertext. Then, you hit the "encode" 
>> button and it spits out 10 shares, each visible as a small block of text 
>> on the screen. Each share would have a little button next to it marked 
>> "delete", and a user could delete up to 7 shares and then hit the 
>> "recover original" button which would recover the original data from the 
>> remaining shares.
> 
> http://bigasterisk.com/tahoe-playground/
> 
> Notes and code reviews are welcome.
> 
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