[tahoe-dev] On Tahoe's protocol

lambdaq@gmail.com lambdaq at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 15:36:45 PST 2010


This is very valuable information to me, thanks a lot :) IDA or Erasure
Coding is vital for secure cloud storage, keep privacy and fighting against
censorship :)

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 3:32 AM, David-Sarah Hopwood <
david-sarah at jacaranda.org> wrote:

> lambdaq at gmail.com wrote:
> >  does tahoe protocol implement something like Information Dispersal
> > Algorithms, like the stuff we used in RAID5 disks?
>
> Yes, Tahoe uses a Reed-Solomon Forward Error Correction code:
> <http://www.usenix.org/events/fast/tech/full_papers/plank/plank_html/>
>
> ("Information Dispersal Algorithm" is strictly speaking a specific FEC
> algorithm described in [Rabin1989], although that term is often used
> generically to mean any FEC.)
>
>
> [Rabin1989]
>   M. O. Rabin. "Efficient dispersal of information for security,
>   load balancing, and fault-tolerance." Journal of the ACM,
>   Vol 36 issue 2, April 1989, pp 225-348.
>   <http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.116.8657>
>
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