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What is Sylow?

Sylow is a personal data store and exchange system, founded on principles of sharing and encryptability, upon which a wide variety of client applications can be built. It prioritizes a flexible, extensible schema and simple API and operation.

The idea: provide an API server, connected to a database and file storage system, that can prototype different forms of data, store, encrypt and serve them in a uniform manner. One can then build a variety of different applications that use the same API, simplifying the task of developing end user applications. The servers will ultimately be able to encrypt each form of data stored using public-key encryption, and communicate with each other for decentralized sharing.

Sylow establishes a certain set of built-in schema that can be used to share data. However, since schema are linked from externally-hosted sources, individual server operators will be able to define and use their own schema. This allows new forms of data to emerge depending on the implementations different groups want to develop.