Encrypting locally would kill their ability to do deduplication and significantly increase Dropbox's operating expenses.
On May 6, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Joel Esler wrote: > Something tells me that (points to your idea) may be in a future dropbox > version. > > > On May 6, 2011, at 1:25 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > >> On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Paul M Moriarty <[email protected]> wrote: >>> The thrust of this article is data deduplication is a security risk? Horse >>> puckey! >> What surprised me was that DropBox encrypts your data at its leisure >> and pleasure. >> >> Not being a DropBox user, I presumed the data was encrypted locally, >> under a key derived from your password/secret, and then transmitted >> for storage. But you know what they say about presumptions...... >> >> Jeff >> >>> On May 4, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: >>> >>>> Interesting reading for DropBox users: >>>> http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2011/04/how-dropbox-sacrifices-user-privacy-for.html. >>>> [SNIP] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
