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# Welcome to Allmydata "Tahoe" # Welcome to Allmydata "Tahoe"
The Allmydata "Tahoe" project is a secure, distributed, fault-tolerant Welcome to the Tahoe project, a secure, decentralized,
storage grid, available under a free-software licence. fault-tolerant filesystem. All of the source code is available
under a Free Software, Open Source licence.
You can store files in the grid and retrieve them with a This filesystem is encrypted and spread over multiple peers in
cryptographically generated URI that securely identifies and decrypts that such a way that it remains available even when some of the
file. You can also organize files with filenames and directories, in the peers are unavailable, malfunctioning, or malicious.
familiar style. The basic idea is that the data in this storage grid is
spread over all participating nodes, using an algorithm that can recover
the data even if a majority of the nodes are no longer available.
The current code base is targeted at hackers and users who are The current code base is targeted at hackers and users who are
willing to use a minimal, text-oriented web user interface. willing to use command-line tools or a hacker-oriented web user
interface.
## Get Started ## Get Started
[Installing Tahoe](http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html) tells how to install the software, how to run a node than can upload and download files, and how to set up your own private grid. [Installing Tahoe](http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/install.html) tells how to install the software, how to run a node than can upload and download files, and how to set up your own private grid.