Here are some papers that are somewhat related to Tahoe. [http://s3.amazonaws.com/AllThingsDistributed/sosp/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf Dynamo: Amazon's Highly Available Key-value Store] -- sophisticated distributed hash table polished by extensive high-performance practical usage; An excellent paper! [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rhea05fixing.html Fixing the Embarrassing Slowness of OpenDHT on PlanetLab (2005)] -- practical lessons in DHT performance that theoreticians learned by deployment [http://srhea.net/papers/ntr-worlds05.pdf Non-Transitive Connectivity and DHTs] -- practical lessons in dealing with not-fully-connected DHTs that theoreticians learned in deployment [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/mislove03post.html POST: A Secure, Resilient, Cooperative Messaging System] -- use a DHT for messaging; includes a suggestion to ameliorate the confidentiality problems of single-instance store by adding random bits to small text messages == See Also == This page is inspired by [http://flud.org flud]'s [http://flud.org/wiki/index.php/RelatedPapers Related Papers] page, which is well worth reading. See also Ludovic Courtès's excellent [http://www.laas.fr/~lcourtes/ludo-1.html bibliography of cooperative backup]. See also our [wiki:RelatedProjects RelatedProjects page].