Welcome to Nano’s documentation!

For first time users we highly recommend reading the Getting Started chapter of the documentation, which contains all the information and resources you need for quickly setting up a Nano client and corresponding user account.

Experienced users will find more suitable information in one of the chapters below.

Table of Contents

• Getting Started
  • Foreword on Security
  • Terminology Overview
    • Nano Client
    • Nano web application
    • Clarabot Servers
  • Registration
    • Password strength importance
    • Password policy
• Nano Features
  • Drive
  • Room
    • Attaching a drive
    • Chat
    • Anonymous users
    • Room management
  • Search
• Webapp Guide
  • Account
    • Overview
    • Registration
    • Password strength
    • Account settings
    • 2FA
  • Drive
    • Overview
    • Create Drive
    • Delete Drive
    • Attach to Room
    • Detach from Room
    • Browse Drive
    • Search Drive
  • Room
    • Overview
    • Create Room
    • Room Options
    • Room Membership
    • Delete Room
    • Attach Drive
    • Browse Drive Content
    • Workspace
  • Client
    • Overview
    • Client setup
    • Client options
  • License
    • Overview
    • Buying Licenses
  • Search
    • Overview
    • Search rules
    • Search fine tuning
    • Search examples
• Client Guide
  • Installation
    • Installing binaries
    • Installing from source
    • After installation
  • Drive
    • Overview
    • Create Drive
    • Delete Drive
    • Attach to Room
  • Configuring local Nano Client
    • log_config
    • remote_admin_policy
    • localhost_network_security
    • path_unicode_normalization
    • restrict_sensitive_path_access
    • config_dir
    • data_dir
    • pid_dir
    • solr_dir
    • solr_data_dir
    • solr_logs_dir
    • tika_dir
    • tika_logs_dir
    • java_dir
    • solr_bundle_dir
    • tika_bundle_dir
  • Configuring remote Nano Client
    • name
    • admin_password
    • drives
    • room_blocks
    • deny_anonymous
    • require_explicit_peer_trust
    • indexed_languages
    • indexer_sync_interval
    • indexer_remove_lost_count
    • indexer_force_sync_on_startup
    • indexer_minimum_delay_between_path_sync
    • indexer_reserved_space
    • indexer_ignored_mimes
    • indexer_extract_text_limit
    • remote_files_restriction
    • server_process_number
    • secrets
  • Instancing
  • Processes
    • Core
    • Control
    • Indexer
    • Gateway
    • Server
    • Picoture
    • Additional software processes
• Security Overview
  • Design goal
    • Layered Cryptography
    • Transparent implementation
    • Zero knowledge
    • End to End encryption
    • Handling of Unencrypted data
  • Browser security
  • User Account
    • Registration
    • Login and session
    • Account recovery
    • Two factor authentication
  • Peer identity
    • Peer trust
  • Access Control
    • Single user
    • Multiple user rooms
  • Message encryption
    • End to End protocol
    • Response kinds
    • Replay Attacks
  • Server chat
    • Dialogue (P2P chat)
    • Room chat
• Cryptography
  • Cryptography guidelines
    • Versioning
    • Symmetric cryptography
    • Hashing
    • Key derivation
    • Asymmetric cryptography
  • Account cryptography
    • Registration overview
    • Login overview
    • Resume overview
    • Account keyring summary
    • Account recovery
    • Account and session security notes
  • Room cryptography
    • Permissions
    • Administrator role
    • Anonymous access
  • Nano cryptography
    • Remote request cryptography
    • Response cryptography and data caching