Welcome to The Least-Authority File System

Tahoe-LAFS is a Free and Open cloud storage system. It distributes your data across multiple servers. Even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to function correctly, preserving your privacy and security.

A one-page summary explains the unique properties of this system.

Download Tahoe-LAFS (v1.10)

Get Involved

• Join the tahoe-dev mailing list and subscribe to tahoe-announce
• Get the source code and start hacking.

Read Some Nice Docs

• index of docs
• Frequently Asked Questions

News

2013-07-28 -- Havenco announces commercial LAFS service

2013-07-01 -- Holger Krekel described Tahoe-LAFS at EuroPython 2013

2013-07-05 -- Mark Berger is working on Tahoe-LAFS for his Google Summer of Code project his blog, Zooko's notes

2013-07-05 -- we just learned that Tahoe-LAFS was presented at the annual Storage Developer Conference

2013-05-01 -- v1.10.0 released

2013-03-18 -- Tahoe-LAFS Weekly News #43 is released

2012-08-20 -- Tahoe-LAFS mentioned in Jonathan Zittrain's CRYPTO keynote (the whole talk is excellent; the Tahoe-LAFS mention is at 58:04).

See also the News page

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Hack Tahoe-LAFS!

The Hack Tahoe-LAFS! contest. Find a security flaw and win a custom prize and a place in our Hall Of Fame!

Sponsorship

Allmydata, Inc. sponsored the Tahoe-LAFS project by providing hardware and data-center facilities along with the initial developer time. We are eternally grateful for their generous and public-spirited support.

Google, Inc. sponsored Tahoe-LAFS through its Google Summer of Code program in 2010 and 2013.

Atlas Networks provides dedicated server hosting for scale and performance testing.

Please contact secorp@secorp.net if you would like to sponsor Tahoe-LAFS too!