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I think some storage providers might not be comfortable with the situation where they'd have to tell a paying customer that they can't help them at all when the

I think some storage providers might not be comfortable with the situation where they'd have to tell a paying customer that they can't help them at all when the customer loses the key - they choose simplicity as a feature over appealing to the security-conscious. As for Dropbox, they need to be able to read the files to serve it to you from their website.

nkassis 15y ago
Can't they implement client side encryption? A javascript based encryption mechanism could be interesting.
- lukeschlather 15y ago
  And completely unusable for the average consumer (needing them to keep track of their key, and somehow secure their key, and somehow pass their key to every browser they use.)