In this episode I talk with my colleague JT Olio about how the Tardigrade storage platform implements end-to-end encryption. Its full of all the best kinds of nerdery: erasure encoding, shards, segments, and mockery of circa-1998 Javascript guestbook technology
Our conversation is timely because of recent shifts to larger numbers of people working from home.
The public consciousness around data security is therefore high, as many people are looking to find what they need to know about encryption, how it applies to them personally, and what are some best practices to be aware of as developers.
Just a little context to ground the conversation: JT is the Vice President of Engineering here at Storj Labs, and has overseen the team working on Tardigrade to its current state. From its prior iterations written in nodeJS to a complete refactoring and makeover in Go.
JT's had a long career in this space, and his previous work at Space Monkey and Mozy (one of the original cloud-based backup companies) has gaven him deep experience working with distributed hash tables, cryptography, Reed-Solomon erasure codes, NAT traversal, fairness mechanics, game theory. Along with security, FUSE, embedded Linux, deployment and packaging, user and inventory management.
Because of this particular path, JT has fostered a team ethos that is very much slanted toward encryption and security by default.
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