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The component of the LEAP infrastructure that addresses client-side encryption and synchronization is called [Soledad](https://soledad.readthedocs.io/). Until the beginning of 2017, we have developed a solution in python that works for Linux and serves as a base implementation for other platforms.
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## Challenges in data transfer and encryption pipeline
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Many challenges arose during development. Some of them are performance issues related to the encryption and transfer pipeline both in server and client side, and had to be addressed in a careful way with the aid of a benchmarking / preformance measurement infrastructure:
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* on the server side, there are memory issues with the use of couchdb as a data backend for client-encrypted data, suggesting the use of backpressure techniques.
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* on the client-side, transfer and decryption / re-encryption of email data were causing both delivery delays and memory exhaustion until the sync and crypto machineries were analysed, re-evaluated and re-worked. |
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* on the client-side, transfer and decryption / re-encryption of email data were causing both delivery delays and memory exhaustion until the sync and crypto machineries were analysed, re-evaluated and re-worked.
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## Benchmarking and resource consumption analysis
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