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White paper

The original Shelby protocol design.

The white paper describes the original design of the Shelby protocol: its architecture, erasure coding, and the research behind them. Shelby as you use it today, through the S3 API and an access key, is described in How Shelby stores data.

Shelby white paper (PDF)

English (en-US)

How Shelby stores data

What happens to your data when you write it, where it lives, and how it comes back.

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