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Is there anything Dropbox can do to prevent this de-dupe hack?
by staunch 16y ago
Is there anything Dropbox can do to prevent this de-dupe hack?
- judofyr 16y agoSure: When the client has created a hashsum of the file and sent it to the server, the server can respond with a challenge: "What's the SHA1 of the bytes between X and Y" (where X and Y are random numbers). This is something both parts can easily compute and the client must have the whole file in order to answer the challenge.