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This prepares for invitation-based reciprocal-permission Accounting. In the scheme I'm developing, nodes publish "I accept shares from Y" messages, which are assembled into a graph, and server will accept shares from any client node reachable in this graph. For this to work, the serverX->clientY edge must be connectable to the serverY->clientZ edge, which means "clientY" and "serverY" must be connected. If clientY and serverY are two distinct keys, they must be cross-signed. Life is easier if there's just one key "Y", rather than distinct client- and server- keys. Calling this one key "server.privkey" would be confusing. "node.privkey" and "node.pubkey" makes more sense. One-server-per-node is a pretty easy restriction. Originally I was thinking that the client.key should be provided in each webapi call, just like a filecap is, making a single node useable by multiple users (Accounting principals), and not providing any ambient storage authority. But I've been unable to think of a comfortable WUI for that (at least without requiring javascript), nor a friendly way to transfer account authority (e.g. writecaps that include storage authority). So I'm more willing to have one-client-per-node these days. (and note that this rename doesn't seriously preclude many-clients-per-node or zero-clients-per-node anyways, it just makes one-client-per-node less awkward)
========== Tahoe-LAFS ========== Tahoe-LAFS is a Free Software/Open Source decentralized data store. It distributes your filesystem across multiple servers, and even if some of the servers fail or are taken over by an attacker, the entire filesystem continues to work correctly and to preserve your privacy and security. To get started please see `quickstart.rst`_ in the docs directory. LICENCE ======= Copyright 2006-2012 The Tahoe-LAFS Software Foundation You may use this package under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or, at your option, any later version. You may use this package under the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0, or at your option, any later version. (You may choose to use this package under the terms of either licence, at your option.) See the file `COPYING.GPL`_ for the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2. See the file `COPYING.TGPPL.rst`_ for the terms of the Transitive Grace Period Public Licence, version 1.0. See `TGPPL.PDF`_ for why the TGPPL exists, graphically illustrated on three slides. .. _quickstart.rst: https://tahoe-lafs.org/source/tahoe-lafs/trunk/docs/quickstart.rst .. _COPYING.GPL: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/COPYING.GPL .. _COPYING.TGPPL.rst: https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/browser/COPYING.TGPPL.rst .. _TGPPL.PDF: https://tahoe-lafs.org/~zooko/tgppl.pdf