Most other systems depend on the security of a central bank of servers, and provide no protection against network eavesdroppers. Gale uses strong cryptography for both privacy and authentication , and is designed to work in an environment of mutual distrust between users and administrators. Gale's architecture uses a loosely-connected set of servers which locate each other via DNS only when they need to talk to each other. Multicast is accomplished by the dynamic creation of self-healing spanning trees of interconnected servers. This means Gale is fast and stable.
Gale is here today.
Gale has been in active development for over three years. Both clients and servers have been well tested by daily use in an active user community. Administrators Gale is largely self-maintaining, but in this section we help you install and configure Gale in the first place, manage encryption keys, set system policy and troubleshoot when things go wrong. This documentation will describe the concepts of Gale, introduce and document the command-line client programs with copious examples. Developers People who want to modify the Gale source code, understand the Gale network protocol, write software using the Gale libraries, or just have a better understanding of how the system works should find these resources helpful.