Documentation

The Basics

• ​about.html: the shape of a Tahoe filesystem and the security properties that it offers
• ​install.html: how to install it (from source code)
• ​running.html: how to run it once it is installed
• ​using.html: how to use it once it is running

• ​install-details.html: a big, unformatted, ill-maintained collection of notes about install issues on various platforms; Hopefully this doc isn't needed for you because the short and sweet "install.html" Just Works. If you love a certain platform and you write a nice install document describing how you build Tahoe on that platform then we will be grateful and you will earn a place in the CREDITS file.

Presentations / Papers

• The ​paper presented at ​PyCon2008, providing an overview of the Tahoe design, and the ​slides (.zip) that were used for the presentation.

Developer Docs

These docs are stored in the source tree, under revision control. You can browse them through the web site:

• the docs/ directory

Developer Wiki Pages

• UseCases: the ways in which Tahoe should be useful
• Security: known security issues and workarounds
• FileEncoding?, explaining how we turn files into shares, with verifiable hashes; This is mostly concerned with chunking and Merkle trees.
• ShareEncoding?, explaining how we turn a chunk into shares: Reed-Solomon, FEC, that stuff
• PeerSelection, explaining how a Tahoe node chooses which other nodes to use for uploading and downloading files (which raises some unsolved issues in balancing scalability, robustness, performance, and simplicity)
• ChangingFilesWhileCopyingThem? : what are the semantics of the "upload" action? the upload takes non-zero time: what happens if the file is changed during that time?

See Also

• The News page for sources of news and information.
• The Bibliography page contains links to scientific papers of interest.
• The RelatedProjects page contains links to a few other decentralized storage projects that you might be interested in.

The Parade of Release Notes

• the release notes announcing v1.0 on March 25, 2008 -- It's version 1.0!
• the release notes announcing v0.9 on March 13, 2008 -- Tahoe is now ready to be relied on for secure storage
• the release notes announcing v0.8 on February 15, 2008, adding "visibility" into the system and more user interfaces
• the release notes announcing v0.7 on January 8, 2008, featuring decentralized directories and mutable files, a FUSE interface, and new open source licensing options
• the release notes announcing v0.6.1 on October 15, 2007, including packaging, usability, and performance improvements
• the release notes announcing v0.6 on September 24, 2007, including improved performance and packaging
• the release notes​ announcing v0.5.1 on August 23, 2007, fixing a security problem in the Web API
• the release notes announcing v0.5 on August 17, 2007, including the Web API and the command-line interface
• the release notes announcing v0.4 on June 29, 2007, including the new mutable, shareable, private directories
• the release notes announcing v0.3 on June 6, 2007, including improved basic functionality
• the release notes announcing v0.2, the first public release, on May 2, 2007 and giving a general overview of why the Tahoe project exists