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 catlfish is a Certificate Transparency log server (RFC 6962).
 
+The catlfish software has the following properties:
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+- Distributed, for fault tolerance under high load
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+- Layered software design with a generic append-only database below
+  and public protocol on top, making it useful for buildling other
+  transparency systems as well
+
+- Cross-organisational operations, enabling scaling beyond what can be
+  achieved by a single organisation
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+- Append-only database backend specially designed for this purpose
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+- HSM support, for keeping sensitive keys off general purpose computers
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+- Dockerised, for a snazzy deployment option
+
 # Requirements
 
 In order to compile catlfish, the following software packages are