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Vault Component of the MaidSafe Network

Description

This library provides a RESTful-like API for clients to connect to a MaidSafe Network. Client interactivity with the network will create the appropriate policies to be passed to the policy-based class design environment. This library can be considered a helper library to connect clients such as LifeStuff to distributed networks such as the MaidSafe Platform.

Features

• Distributed structured data
• Distributed unstructured data
• Automatic fail-over and self healing
• Consistent data integrity checking and repairing
• Node identification guaranteed via PKI provided by MaidSafe-Passport
• Fully encrypted data store (key value)
• Public data store
• Shared data handling
• Data versioning and merge resolution (mostly automatic)
• Built to run in hostile environments (including public Internet)
• No servers required at all (no DNS, time servers etc.)

Programming languages

Core

C++11 compatible with GCC (4.7 and above), Clang (3.3 and above) and MSVC 2012 (with no dependency on CTP releases). Tested on Windows 32/64 bit, Linux 32/64 bit (dependent on GCC version) and OSX (Mountain Lion and above).

Status

This library is considered PRE-ALPHA quality and is provided with a full test suite and QA suite. This should not be considered for use in production quality systems at this time. There is currently a limit on message size that requires attention at the earliest convenience.

Roadmap

• Improve ranking system to recognise further improper behaviour
• Improve type safety of network messages
• Measure fully distributed local data stores for account handling
• Provide further API enhancements to allow client merge policies and structured data object handling