> You create the private key on the client side so that you can encrypt it with a custom password before sending it to Backblaze. Their client is not designed

> You create the private key on the client side so that you can encrypt it with a custom password before sending it to Backblaze. Their client is not designed this way. Their installer generates and sends the private key before the user has an option to set a passphrase. I replied to a different comment about this with more detail[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28350404 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28350404