NSA's open-source project aims for secure, large-scale storage

The National Security Agency is looking for help from the developer community in contributing to a label-based storage software that could be enable secure, granular access to data in large storage systems.

NSA submitted the software, named Accumulo, to the Apache Software Foundation’s Incubator, citing the need for a “flexible, high performance distributed key/value store that provides expressive, fine-grained access labels.”