## What is Erasure Code?

## Architecture

Expansion of ellipses and choice of erasure sets based on this expansion is an automated process in MinIO. Here are some of the details of our underlying erasure coding behavior.

- Erasure coding used by MinIO is [Reed-Solomon](https://github.com/klauspost/reedsolomon) erasure coding scheme, which has a total shard maximum of 256 i.e 128 data and 128 parity. MinIO design goes beyond this limitation by doing some practical architecture choices.

- Temporary credentials do not need to be stored with the application but are generated dynamically and provided to the application when requested. When (or even before) the temporary credentials expire, the application can request new credentials.

Following are advantages for using temporary credentials:

- Eliminates the need to embed long-term credentials with an application.

For distributed MinIO deployments, specify the *same* `MINIO_KMS_SECRET_KEY` for each MinIO server process.

At any point in time you can switch from `MINIO_KMS_SECRET_KEY` to a full KMS
deployment. You just need to import the generated key into KES - for example via
the KES CLI once you have successfully setup KES:

```sh
kes key create my-minio-key OSMM+vkKUTCvQs9YL/CVMIMt43HFhkUpqJxTmGl6rYw=
```

## Highlights

- Supports source and destination buckets to have the same name unlike AWS S3, addresses variety of usecases such as *Splunk*, *Veeam* site to site DR.

### Existing object replication

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```
sudo pip install yq
alias kv-pairify='yq ".configuration[]" | jq ".[]" | jq -r ".name + \"=\" + .value"'
```

Let's take for example a set of 12 compute nodes with an aggregate memory of _1.2TiB_, we need to do following settings for optimal results. Add the following optimal entries for _core-site.xml_ to configure _s3a_ with **MinIO**. Most important options here are

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## Deployment Recommendations

### Allow port access for Firewalls

By default MinIO uses the port 9000 to listen for incoming connections. If your platform blocks the port by default, you may need to enable access to the port.

### ufw

For hosts with ufw enabled (Debian based distros), you can use `ufw` command to allow traffic to specific ports. Use below command to allow access to port 9000

```sh

# Security Policy

## Supported Versions

We always provide security updates for the [latest release](https://github.com/minio/minio/releases/latest).
Whenever there is a security update you just need to upgrade to the latest version.

## Reporting a Vulnerability

All security bugs in [minio/minio](https://github,com/minio/minio) (or other minio/* repositories)
should be reported by email to ******@****.***. Your email will be acknowledged within 48 hours,