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@@ -2,6 +2,23 @@ catlfish is a Certificate Transparency log server (RFC 6962). +The catlfish software has the following properties: + +- Distributed, for fault tolerance under high load + +- 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 + +- Append-only database backend specially designed for this purpose + +- HSM support, for keeping sensitive keys off general purpose computers + +- Dockerised, for a snazzy deployment option + # Requirements In order to compile catlfish, the following software packages are |