Scality Droplet is a high perfomance Cloud Storage client library providing a set of high-level features. It is open source and released under the BSD License. Multiple backends are supported: S3 (Simple Storage Service), CDMI (Cloud Data Management Interface), SRWS (Scality Simple Rest Web Service). On-the-fly encryption/decryption and buffered I/O are also supported. initial port from Vadim Zhukov tweaks by me and sthen@, ok sthen@