Buildbot instruction cross-linking.

2014-08-23 Thread Callme Whatiwant
I just modified the wiki in several places to crosslink information about buildbot as well as including Howto Contribute a Buildbot links in the dev docs page. https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/HowtoContributeABuildbot https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/BuildbotPolicy

Multiple users of a single gateway.

2014-08-23 Thread Callme Whatiwant
I've noticed a multi-user gateway use case popping up in different scenarios. Originally I was mainly aware of shared web gateways. Recently there have been efforts to create system wide daemons/services (on debian and windows at least) where some of the same usability and security issues arise.

Re: mini-Summit report, day 1

2014-07-11 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Hello horribly backlogged mailing list! I wanted to follow up with an item inline below: On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:33 PM, Brian Warner war...@lothar.com wrote: Quick summary of the first day: Brian, Daira, Nathan, and Tony Arcieri met up in a bar/coffee-shop from 6-10pm. We talked about:

Re: 'pip install allmydata-tahoe' now works

2014-06-30 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Huzzah! On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Brian Warner war...@lothar.com wrote: Just a heads up, the new Nevow-0.11.1 release a few days ago fixed tahoe's #2032, which means that you should now be able to install tahoe with just: pip install allmydata-tahoe That should grab all the

Re: How can I run Tahoe-LAFS on one computer

2013-11-13 Thread Callme Whatiwant
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 3:07 AM, str4d st...@i2pmail.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 You can create Tahoe nodes anywhere and run multiple nodes under a single user. If you don't specify a node location, the default location is used (~/.tahoe/). But you can also

Re: summit room change

2013-11-13 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Ok, I'm leaving now and should arrive in 30-50 minutes. Regards, Nathan On Wed, Nov 13, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Brian Warner war...@lothar.com wrote: For folks attending the summit: this morning we'll be meeting in the 1st floor Mozilla Commons, which is on the other side of the main lobby from

Re: [tahoe-dev] tahoemenu.py

2013-10-14 Thread Callme Whatiwant
I'm interested to see this. It's not clear to me if the menu is an extension to the webapi, or a separate control process with a GUI menu, or something else. I recommend publishing the code into a public repository. A test grid cap is pretty stylish though. ;-) Nathan / nejucomo On Wed, Oct

Re: [tahoe-dev] Dedicated LAFS nodes offer

2013-07-27 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Just a response about worse is better / correctness and LAFS development: On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Avi Freedman freed...@freedman.net wrote: Avi, [snip...] It'd be better if LAFS grew in features and usability, though. I think sometimes the religion of the correctness of

Re: [tahoe-dev] Dedicated LAFS nodes offer

2013-07-26 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Avi, Congratulations on deploying this new service! More responses inline: On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 9:23 PM, Avi Freedman freed...@freedman.net wrote: [✂ ...] We wanted to let everyone in the community know that Havenco is launching storage (and VPN services) in beta this month, and the

Re: [tahoe-dev] Where does allmydata.client start listening?

2013-07-23 Thread Callme Whatiwant
On Sun, Jul 21, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Steven Lee elde...@outlook.com wrote: First of all thanks for your help to my understanding of the source these days, now I am struggling to comprehend what is going to happen when a client was launched(Here I mean the client node's HTTP server). I learnt how

Re: [tahoe-dev] some questions about tahoe-lafs

2013-07-23 Thread Callme Whatiwant
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:56 PM, Avi Freedman freed...@freedman.net wrote: Hideo, I am a padawan in the LAFS realm but re #1, that was one of my first questions - why not have the client be able to talk to webdav, S3, SWIFT, and other systems directly so no logic was needed server side? I

Re: [tahoe-dev] proposal: add padding

2013-07-21 Thread Callme Whatiwant
I propose: don't do anything without both a threat model and a clear picture of the trade-offs any defense feature introduces. Example conflict of goals: efficiency in the form of range updates (which I believe MDMF format implements?) versus confidentiality (against what threat model?) in the

[tahoe-dev] lafs-giab - 0.1 release.

2013-07-20 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Hello, I wrote before about the lafs_giab.py script which simplifies creating, configuring, and launching a local self-contained grid in a box. This is useful when you want to setup a throw-away grid to test interaction with the webapi or other front-ends, and it's probably useful for other

[tahoe-dev] pip install workaround (bug #2032, and related #1963)

2013-07-20 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Hello, If you install Tahoe-LAFS from PyPI (where it is called allmydata-tahoe) using pip, or any other setuptools approach, you may run into a problem installing Nevow. The workaround is to explicitly install twisted first. This works on my box in a pristine python evironment (a new

Re: [tahoe-dev] One Grid to Rule Them All

2013-07-01 Thread Callme Whatiwant
Hi Avi! On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 9:56 PM, Avi Freedman freed...@freedman.net wrote: Dear Comrade Nathan, My first thought was that one could publish hashes of readcaps into DNS, where the DNS response would be the introducer for the cluster. But... With the introducer furl I think they

Re: [tahoe-dev] friendly hello

2013-06-27 Thread Callme Whatiwant
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 6:08 AM, stig atle stiga...@cryptolab.net wrote: Hello everyone, Welcome! I just wanted to introduce myself briefly, I'm 29, work as a engineer in the oil industry, mostly programming and 3d related. I do have a home page where I post about personal projects, feel

Re: [tahoe-dev] src to generate tahoe.cfg

2013-06-27 Thread Callme Whatiwant
It looks like the code lives here: ./src/allmydata/scripts/create_node.py There are various string templates there which are used to create an initial config file. I'm curious why you choose to automatically modify the config file? I'm not sure about the core developers, but I prefer to keep a

Re: [tahoe-dev] Tahoe WUI enhancement suggestion

2013-06-27 Thread Callme Whatiwant
tahoe-lafs actually had a feature like this originally and such a feature, by design, has a security vulnerability separate from cross-site scripting: It goes by the conventional misnomer: cross-site reference forgery (CSRF). Suppose accessing the url http://localhost:3456:/aliases/myalias; was

Re: [tahoe-dev] One Grid to Rule Them All

2013-06-27 Thread Callme Whatiwant
erasure-decode and decrypt them. On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:41 PM, Callme Whatiwant nejuc...@gmail.comwrote: Dear Distributed Secure Storage fans, The time has come to shed our conspiratorial pretense of being nothing but small disparate bands of neighborly do gooders sharing storage

Re: [tahoe-dev] One Grid to Rule Them All

2013-06-27 Thread Callme Whatiwant
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:57 PM, Callme Whatiwant nejuc...@gmail.comwrote: Here's a set of trade-offs that I currently find intriguing: Non-Global Use Case: The One Grid technology is opt in. By default tahoe-lafs behaves similar to its current incarnation. The One Grid implementation