Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of The Peer File System - savannah.nongnu.org

[Sylvain Beucler]

Hi,

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-- 
Sylvain

> Johan Rydberg <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: The Peer File System
> System name: peerfs
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> The project's goal is to develop a fully decentralized,  secure
> distributed file system with high-availability and load-balancing.
> 
> To accomplish this several sub-goals have to be meat:  
> 
> 1. Develop a distributed hash table (DHT) using structued a
>    structued peer-to-peer overlay.  The DHT will provide both
>    load-balancing and high-availability through the use of
>    consistent-hashing and replication.  The DHT must also be 
>    resistent to high churn (nodes joining and leaving the
>    network.)
> 
> 2. Develop a network transport protocol to be used with the 
>    DHT.  The key characteristics of the protocol is that it
>    must detect lost nodes in a quick and reliable way, also
>    imposing as little overhead as possible to minimize 
>    lost through-put due to protocol maintaince.
> 
>    The reason for developing a new protocol is that DHT 
>    traffic is by nature packet based instead of stream
>    based.  Which makes TCP as bad choice.  
> 
> The filesystem will use the DHT as backing storage. 
> 
> The security comes from (in rough terms) that all users are 
> identifier by a public key.  Modifications to a file must have
> the signature of an authorizied writer.  The filesystem will
> provide fine grained security based on the concept of Access 
> Control Lists (ACL.)
> 
> The project is still in the "planning and design" phase.  No
> actual code has yet been written, with the exception of small
> tests.
> 
> 
> Other Software Required:
> The GNU MP Library
> The libgcrypt library (from GnuPG.)