Harp Nextcloud Jun 2026

Investigative journalists cannot trust central cloud servers. With Harp+Nextcloud, the Nextcloud server can be hosted on a cheap VPS (for search and indexing), but the actual document files never touch that VPS. They travel directly between journalists’ laptops via encrypted P2P.

Her task was not to extract data. That was easy. Her task was to witness —to understand how a small community had used a simple open-source file sharing platform to accomplish something extraordinary. harp nextcloud

The Harp protocol is independent of Nextcloud and could be adapted to ownCloud or Seafile. Source code and benchmarks are available at: https://github.com/harp-nextcloud/harp-core (placeholder). Investigative journalists cannot trust central cloud servers

She titled it: "Nextcloud as a Living Archive: The Harp Protocol and the Resilience of Shared Culture." harp nextcloud