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Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use?
Are you happy with it?
- sidcool 9y agoGoogle Drive, Tarsnap, SpiderOak
- hoveringcto 9y agoGoogle Drive has built in encryption? Or are you encrypting before uploading?
- TheGrumpyBrit 9y agorclone supports encrypted Google Drive folders.
- lyk 9y agoKeybase. It's a pretty great overall service, with its encrypted virtual file system being just one of them.
- coolspot 9y agoMega.co.nz Dropbox + encfs
- Nerada 9y agoLeast Authority/Tahoe-LAFS They call it S4, but it's basically a client side encryption front-end for Amazon's S3 for $25/month and unlimited storage.
- lazyeye 9y agoResilio sync. It's almost identical to Dropbox except with encryption. https://www.resilio.com/individuals/ https://www.resilio.com/individuals/
- QasimK 9y agoI also use Resilio Sync because it is one of the rare solutions here that provide an iOS client. The app is quite poor compared to the Dropbox app, you can just about use it to open, sync files both ways but that’s it. Also, you cannot share individual files or folders with others.
- n3d1m 9y agoDropbox uses encryption.
- sabarasaba 9y agoAnd also shares your keys with the NSA.
- publicarray 9y agoCryptomator.org inside iCloud. I like it because I'm responsible for the password. There is no password reset feature. Also a +1 for Keybase.
- kirubakaran 9y agoSpider Oak
- Thespian2 9y ago+1 Spider Oak "Hive" for dropbox-like functionality
- whamlastxmas 9y agoSame. I'm unhappy with how so slow their web interface is but really you shouldn't be using it.
- sigsergv 9y agoResilio Sync + encfs, works fine on macos and linux, not sure about windows though.
- alphabettsy 9y agoCryptomator on top of iCloud and Dropbox. Also Boxcryptor on Dropbox.
- NuSkooler 9y agoownCloud and never looked back
- gergely 9y agotresorit
- aey 9y agowhy would you trust someone else to encrypt your files? I use dropbox and this makefile %.enc:% openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in $< -out $@ %:%.enc openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -in $< -out $@ just not in the shared directory :)
- natch 9y agoWhat is going on here? I tried storing that in a file "Makefile" and created a file called 'foo', then did: $ make foo.enc The output was: make: Circular Makefile.enc <- Makefile dependency dropped. make: Circular foo <- foo.enc dependency dropped. openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in foo -out foo.enc enter aes-256-cbc encryption password: After putting in a password it did encrypt the file, but there's a lot of noise in my output, so maybe I'm doing it wrong. Any clues?
- aey 9y agowell, thats because the rules are for both encrypting and decrypting. %.enc:% %:%.enc In one file. So enc -> file -> enc. You can split them out, so encrypt in one makefile and decrypt in another. make -f Encrypt foo.enc make -f Decrypt foo but thats been bugging me as well, so here is an all in one $E: openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in $(patsubst %.enc,%,$@) -out $@ $D: openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -in $@.enc -out $@ make E=foo.enc make D=foo use make at your own peril :)
- geezk7 9y agoTransparent File Cryptography with EasyPG https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keeping-secrets-in-emacs-gnupg-auth-sources https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keeping-secrets-in-em...
- phs2501 9y agoDropbox and encfs. There's a Windows client for it too if you need access there (http://www.getsafe.org/ http://www.getsafe.org/).
- cclements 9y agoNextcloud, it's great.
- ohiovr 9y agoYunohost makes it easy to implement (done in a few clicks). And yunohost has a really nice github clone (Gogs if you haven't heard of it). Yunohost itself is super easy to get working and even has a raspberry pi version. Debian based:)
- aiNohY6g 9y agoA mix of syncthing (for distributed secure storage, opensource, https://syncthing.net/ https://syncthing.net/) and mega.nz (with its CLI tools to share files securely, http://mega.nz/ http://mega.nz/).
- thermalgobshite 9y agoThis is exactly what I do as well.
- _l5su 9y agoRclone + its encryption + Google Drive business account is the best option I've seen so far. Unlimited for $10/month since they don't enforce limits on single user accounts yet. Some alternatives I see here and the reason I don't use them: SpiderOak: I've written extensively about this [0]. TL;DR: It's slow as hell and they're utterly unmotivated to fix it. It's slow enough that I consider it unusable. Fine for one off documents, nothing else. Syncthing/Resilio/Nextcloud: I'd have to provide my own storage. Dropbox/AWS/GCP/Azure/Tarsnap/Rsync.net: Too expensive. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13306353 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13306353
- foobarbazetc 9y agoAn encrypted sparsebundle in a Dropbox.
- lowry 9y agoRestic to cold Google Cloud Storage, 5€ per Tb.
- emerged 9y agoGoogle Drive with BitLocker VHDs
- alekna 9y agoI use EncFS with gsutil -m sync to backup encrypted data to the cloud I dont't trust closed source binaries like Dropbox and others.
- hlieberman 9y agoborgbackup + rsync.net. I'm very happy.
- FuckOffNeemo 9y agoSync.com
- sandGorgon 9y agoTarsnap - https://www.tarsnap.com/ https://www.tarsnap.com/ Online backups for the truly paranoid best part is the deduplication efficiency - https://www.tarsnap.com/deduplication.html https://www.tarsnap.com/deduplication.html
- dewey 9y agoThat’s not really a Dropbox alternative as it’s not made for sharing.
- chrisked 9y agoBoxcryptor
- tmikaeld 9y agopCloud, 2TB + encryption for 250$ for a lifetime now at Christmas, hard to beat considering their speeds (200Mbit). The only caveat is that sending many small files is slower than large (50Mbit).
- Steppschuh 9y agoBdrive[1] is end to end encrypted and implemented as RAIC of different cloud storage providers. It's currently a B2B only solution provided by the Bundesdruckerei (German federal printing office). Disclaimer: I work for a software engineering company related to the Bundesdruckerei. [1] https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/en/About-us/Innovations/BDrive-Story https://www.bundesdruckerei.de/en/About-us/Innovations/BDriv...
- gcthomas 9y agoSpideroak. I've had issues with silently maxing out the storage, leaving me unable to access the account to delete files. Having to resort to the Bash command line isn't too user friendly, but I like the service otherwise. Zero knowledge encryption is an essential feature to hove nowadays.
- sysread 9y agoI've used cryptomator in the past but it still feels like it needs a bit more testing and polish before I'd be confident in using it for personal file security. Boxcryptor has the feel of an incredibly brittle app. I'd hate to be the one who had to maintain that thing. Tresorit is wonderful if you're rich. I've settled on pcloud. Adding end to end encryption is an add on service but inexpensive and dependable. They also offer background backups of your social media accounts, downloading and storing all of the photos you've uploaded to fb, Instagram, Google photos, and even doing full Google drive backups.
- suicideMime 9y agowhy no one talks about veracrypt and TrueCrypt?
- jkmcf 9y agoI’ve been using BoxCryptor on top of google drive. The hard decision was deciding whether to use a fringe[1] service with dedicated encryption or one of the big 3 and encrypt locally. I switched from Dropbox to Google Drive, and store encrypted things with boxcryptor, essentially getting the best of both worlds. [1] from spider oak to keybase, they are smaller businesses with smaller adoption, and aren’t supported by almost any mobile apps. iOS Files app might make this better.
- geesharpminor 9y agoSurprised no one has said Tresorit, or am I missing some flaw in their service? I’ve been happy with their service, treat it as Dropbox with end to end encryption.