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 ==== What is Tahoe ====
-[[https://tahoe-lafs.org/|Tahoe LAFS]] stands for Least Authority File System. It is a file system and data storage with very interesting features.
+[[https://tahoe-lafs.org/|Tahoe LAFS]] stands for Least Authority File Store. It is a cryptographic key value data store with very interesting features and a filesystem-like overlay:
   * cryptographic capabilities model which acts like a distributed access control system
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 This page is meant to be a resource of Tahoe knowledge. In the hope of making it as easy as possibly for others to start using it.
-==== Details ====
-A group of servers (called **shares**) providing storage is called a **storage grid**.
-Files stored on a grid are split into parts. Each node gets only part of your file. Each part is encrypted as well. To later restore a file you only need a limited number of it's parts. For example you spread parts of your file onto 10 shares but only three of them are needed to restore it.
-There's all kinds of grids out there. Connecting to them is done through their so called **introducer**. This is necessary since not all shares might be online all the time.
 ===== Installation (with Tor) =====
-In the installation we configure Tahoe to use Tor. All shares are hidden services.
+In the installation we configure Tahoe to use Tor. All services are Tor hidden services... such as the Tahoe-LAFS introducer and storage nodes.
 ==== Required Packages ====