LeraoSoft - Knowledge Distributed

Great news we have gotten the system to work.  It is still a little slow taking about 30 seconds to save a file and anywhere from 0.5 seconds to 45 seconds to retrieve a file, depending on size.  Currently the system supports listing storing and removing files as well as creating directories.

 It seems to perform better with more nodes on the network and is more reliable then (in a quick connect and ensure message sense not in a data integrity sense). We do however have lots of work still.  We need to be-able to split up files into multiple parts so we can store lager files more effectively, ensure all of the certificate based authentication is working correctly and  encrypt the file before sending it.  The final encryption will probably be done last so that there is the least amount hinging upon it but it will be easy to implement since the encoding code can take any stream we need only to create a encrypted file stream, one such stream is actually already created and part of the pastry utilities.  

Of key importance to our project is testing.To get closer to our goal of testing this on somewhat realistic systems we need to make it much easier to deploy and configure to do this we have made it use a variety of configuration files and we are working on creating an installer program to do most of the work for us in this regard aswell.  However many of our tests will be done with unit tests some basic ones have already been created and will be expanded upon.