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Zero Knowledge Encryption
I find that many Cloud services offer encryption during transfer to the service and encryption at the destination. Dropbox does this too. Unfortunately, the keys used at the destination are available to Dropbox. What would make Dropbox unique is if it would offer Zero Knowledge encryption at the client. That way all files are encrypted at the client with the customer retaining the keys. Why is this important? There can be bugs during transfer even if encryption is used (remember the famous OOPS with caches on internet servers offering up unencrypted data?). Also, the government can force Dropbox to deliver user data (or it may be compromised by hackers).
Dropbox with Zero Knowledge Encryption would be a market leading solution that would drive a great preference over OneDrive, Google Drive and others. It would be the only way I would be comfortable putting my files on the cloud.
I wanted to share a quick update with you:
We have launched our end-to-end encryption in April. More details can be found here and here.
High level overview:
You can now add end-to-end encryption to team folders. The functionality is available for our Advanced, Business Plus and Enterprise customers at no additional costs.
If there are any questions, please let me know!
ITConsultingAfrica Thank you I didn't know about sync.com :) I just signed up!
I would love to see the option for Zero Knowledge Encryption, as well. From a finanical stanpoint, I am paying Sync.com for this service, and not Dropbox. I'd rather be using Dropbox.
There is no reason it needs to be all or nothing for all users. Some cloud providers allow it as an option for those who want it, while others who prefer the convienence and integrations can disable it.
Seems like this is a no brainer for at least the Vault
Fully agree, more and more providers are offering this service. I would opt for DropBox to see if they can do the same. Privacy and security are increasingly becoming more important (should always be important, but anyway). I don't want anyone snooping around in my files.
Just signed up with sync.com because of Zero Knowledge Feature.
But Is sync.com reliable.
Happy to upvote this all day long, and then some. You have my vote (I have voted). If I could upvote indefinitely I'd still be here days later upvoting this. I 100% agree with this 'idea'.
This needs to happen.
This would be nice but it needs to be done correctly. I don't think dropbox would do it because normal users would get angry if they forget the password and can't get to their files. The security stuff seems nice to them, but if they loose their files they don't really care.
For now use Cryptomator, it is a pretty decent Open Source app for desktop and android that is compatible with google drive and doesn't cost a monthly fee (free on desktop, one time 10$ payment on mobile)
There is no reason to believe that this has to be an opt-out scenario. It can be opt-in and even done per folder. This isn't trivial but it would be really nice to have and give me more confidence in storing confidential information on Dropbox.
This is a must have option for every storing OTHER PEOPLE DATA storage.
Else it's law of life privacy violation.
I wait for someone from USA to start a court against such violation done by Microsoft, Dropbox, Google and other "storages".
