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JPDStore is (or should be) written in Java and uses the BouncyCastle JCE 
(which is open source) for cryptography. The GUI will use SWING. 
It will work at least on Windows and Linux, but since it is java it 
should work everywhere where there is a java environment.

Its main goal is to allow persons store files into a "store". These 
store looks like lots of files with random file names and all equal 
lengths. Files are protected by passphrases (they are both encrypted 
and referenced by the passphrase) - more than one file can be stored 
in the same passphrase, but because of the nature of the project, one 
should use more than one passphrase altogether. There is also a feature 
to add "random garbage" which needs space on hard disk but cannot be 
accessed by any passphrase.

This provides some kind of plausible deniability (no one can no if you 
created 1MiB or 10GiB of random data, and since you cannot prove that 
the data is really random, you cannot be accused to provide any more 
passphrases when you have provided one (to someone who threatens you 
to show passphrases).

An additional feature (which is planned) is to provide a way to fetch 
files from a publicly available data store via HTTP. I don't know if 
any provider allowed hosting such a store, but if he does, no one can 
say how many data (and which one) is in there... (Of course, the store 
will be only writable by users who have write access to the website).

The largest problem for such a software is to make it "secure" - 
since I don't know much about different cryptographic algorithms, 
my algorithms may (or - to be more precise - will most likely) have 
some security problems. So I need space to host a "proof of concept" 
version as a base to discuss with others and make the crypto more 
secure. Since the software will be GPLed, I decided to host it on 
SourceForge.net.

Hmm, Features. I think I already listed them above:
- create and delete a (local) store.
- store, retrieve and delete files from a store
- add random garbage to a store
- retrieve files from a store via HTTP
- both GUI and command line client

There is some source code here on my hard disk, but not published 
yet. If you need to look at the source first (cannot think of a 
reason) I may mail it to you (about 60K).