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Developer of EteSync here. You can share your collections with other users, so it's definitely end-to-end encryption. Though I'd argue that even if it was just
by tasn 6y ago
Developer of EteSync here.
You can share your collections with other users, so it's definitely end-to-end encryption. Though I'd argue that even if it was just single-player, it was still e2ee, because you have multiple devices and the server is oblivious to the contents of the data. Sure, you could maybe call that client-side encryption to have a different term, but that would just confuse people.
- upofadown 6y agoThere is a convention to the use of the E2EE term. All encryption involves a party that encrypts and one that decrypts. When the German U-boat operator used an Enigma machine to decode a message off the radio no one then or now would call what had happened E2EE. That is even in the face of the fact that many operators in many U-boats were decoding the same message. EteSync works in the same way. E2EE is a term normally only used when some distinction from a default case is important. It is in a sense a weaker term than just "encryption". It is normally only used for particular cases in messaging. Something like: "All data is strongly encrypted at all times when off the users devices." strikes me as stronger, better and easier to understand in this case.