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Cameleonica filesystem
Cameleonica is a prototype safe cryptographic steganographic advanced filesystem.
Features include confidentiality, authenticity, plausible deniability, permanent deletion, versioning, snapshots, atomicity, transactions, file and directory cloning, internal compression, non-transparent compression and hashing, deduplication, serializability, multiple-device replication and tiering.
Internal design includes atomic and ordered operations, diskless fsync, copy on write, segmented log-structured disk layout, copying garbage collector, complete inodes, complete dictionary, rings and chains abstract data structures, file-level replication and tiering.
Project status and roadmap
Only design documentation is being developed at this point. You can help by reviewing these documents and posting questions or suggestions for improvement, just create a new Issue. Please do NOT submit Pull Requests, unless recording changes was enabled. It is impossible to diff odt files.
- Complete specification pdf (48 pages)
Documentation is divided into sections:
- Mission statement (6 pages)
- Ideas and Observations (20 pages)
- Preliminary design (currently edited, 10 pages)
- Python/Fuse implementation plan (currently edited, 6 pages)
- Questions and Answers (4 pages)
Experimental code is also in the repository.
Development notice
Code will be developed in Python/FUSE and later possibly in-kernel. Documentation is created in LibreOffice, XMind and draw.io. User experience design will be done in Glade.
License is set to MIT Licence, unless something changes.
