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# Security Considerations # Security Considerations
This page exists so that there is a single place to go to learn about the # General Security Properties of Tahoe
general security properties of Tahoe, as well as about any current known
issues that might have security consequences. Please read [the about page](http://allmydata.org/source/tahoe/trunk/docs/about.html) for a simple explanation of what security properties Tahoe offers.
For technical details about how those properties are enforced, see the [the architecture document]source:docs/architecture.txt.
# Current Known Security Issues in Tahoe # Current Known Security Issues in Tahoe
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For future versions of Tahoe, we are considering ways to close off this leakage of authority while preserving ease of use -- the discussion of this issue is ticket #127. For future versions of Tahoe, we are considering ways to close off this leakage of authority while preserving ease of use -- the discussion of this issue is ticket #127.
For the present, a good work-around is that if you want to store and view a file on Tahoe and you want that file to remain private, then remove from that file any hyperlinks pointing to other people's servers and remove any JavaScript unless you are sure that the JavaScript is not written to maliciously leak access. For the present, a good work-around is that if you want to store and view a file on Tahoe and you want that file to remain private, then remove from that file any hyperlinks pointing to other people's servers and remove any JavaScript unless you are sure that the JavaScript is not written to maliciously leak access.
# General Security Properties of Tahoe
This will eventually be a summary of the general properties of the Tahoe secure decentralized filesystem.
For technical details, there is [the architecture document]source:docs/architecture.txt.