[tahoe-lafs-weekly-news] TWN 46

[marlowe at antagonism.org]

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Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News, issue number 46, Novober 4 2015
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Welcome to the Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News (TWN).  Tahoe-LAFS_ is a secure,
distributed storage system. `View TWN on the web`_ *or* `subscribe to TWN`_.
If you would like to view the "new and improved" TWN, complete with pictures;
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Announcement and News
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Delayed Release
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My apologies for the delayed release. Unfortunately a rather nasty bug got
two
of my kids and myself. TWN will resume on its regularly scheduled release,
every Tuesday at 0900 Pacific. Thank you for your understanding.

Tahoe-LAFS Mentioned in Wired
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Wired `mentioned`_ Tahoe-LAFS in its story on ZeroCoin Electric Coin Company
putting into practice, `ZeroCoin`_. Zooko along with being one of the
creators
of Tahoe-LAFS, is now the CEO of ZeroCoin. TWN wishes ZeroCoin Electric Coin
Company the best of luck.

.. _`mentioned`:
  http://www.wired.com/2015/11/zerocoin-startup-revives-the-dream-of-truly-anonymous-money/
.. _`ZeroCoin`: http://zerocoin.org

Mailing List
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Brian Warner `updated the SSL certificate`_ for tahoe-lafs.org. Jean-Rene
David
had questions on how `Tahoe-LAFS authenticates`_ users.

.. _`updated the SSL certificate`:
  https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2015-October/009606.html
.. _`Tahoe-LAFS authenticates`:
  https://tahoe-lafs.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2015-October/009607.html

Patches Needing Review
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* `#1382`_: Zooko's top priority: ddland the improved servers-of-happiness
* make MDMF the default version of distributed mutable files
* `#573`_: land Lin Shu's work on Server Selection
* `#1819`_: land LeastAuthority's work on Cloud Backendvers-of-happiness

.. _`#1382`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1382
.. _`#573`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/573
.. _`#1819`: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/1819

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