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Show HN: Safebox - for ur Dropbox
- asharp 15y agoInteresting. What crypto functions do you use? Openssl? Also in your "how it works" s/loosing/losing. Keep in mind that you are breaking dedup, which is likely to make dropbox sad. Probably not sad enough for them to do anything useful though.
- SriniK 15y agoGood question. I am using pycrypto - which is compatible with Openssl. Thanks. Fixing the typo.
- asharp 15y agoCool. How do you create the "folders" that people see? (ui wise?) And hide the encrypted counterparts?
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- SriniK 15y agoFolders are created as is. Encryption is done on each file. I tried to capture a how a typical working session might look like. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-uRQtT49U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF-uRQtT49U
- SriniK 15y agoSafebox allows end-to-end encryption for important files. Would love to get feedback from fellow hackers.
- feralchimp 15y agoDisclosure: I have designs on entering this space with my own apps. (thanks for providing me additional motivation to hustle!) 1. Opening up the crypto implementation is a very smart move. Whenever I talk to my wife about building crypto tools, her first question is "Why should people trust you?" 2. Think critically about first user impressions w.r.t. stuff like fonts, the tone of your text, etc. Per the above, you're asking people to trust their data to you. "ur Dropbox" might not give them that safe feeling they're looking for. 3. Another question to be wary of is "why not just use an encrypted disk image." I think you're handling some of that by promoting the ability to share files, but think about answering that question more directly in a FAQ. Overall, lots of potential here.
- SriniK 15y ago#2 I could definitely change 'ur' to 'your'. #3 encrypted disk image doesn't allow collaboration. That was one of the main things as I set out to solve.
- rbrcurtis 15y agoan encrypted disk image also means the entire disk gets uploaded to dropbox every time any content on that disk changes, causing long uploads and bandwidth issues if the disk is big enough.
- nphase 15y agoI really hate to be this guy - but why "ur"? Why not "your"?
- deyan 15y agoFor those looking for alternatives, I have been using Boxcryptor and it has been excellent. It includes a few more options (e.g. file name obfuscation).
- asharp 15y agoencfs also works really well with dropbox and it similarly includes many more options. Truecrypt would also work. Does dropbox do binary diff syncs?
- deyan 15y agoActually, TrueCrypt doesn't work if you want to do collaboration and real-time sync.
- SriniK 15y agoFew things which led us to avoid file name obfuscation . File versioning: Dropbox does a great job in versioning, so we wanted retain that flexibility. . Collaboration for teams: This is one of the most important things that we wanted to address. So keeping file names as is the most simplest solution we could make use of. Also, we are using keys. So strength of the password is a non issue and makes it much much harder to device a rainbow table attack.
- fduran 15y agoHi, just bought it and downloaded. After installation it wouldn't synchronize folders, being on Windoze closing and starting again your app did the trick. The people interested in security solutions would happily pay much more than $1 I would think.
- SriniK 15y agoThanks for trying it out. Restarting shouldn't be needed. I should fix that. Can you please DM me at srini@fabulasolutions.com
- st3fan 15y agoThis is something DropBox should implement natively. I would pay premium for that kind of functionality.
- crdoconnor 15y agoFor those wanting to solve the problem another way, see: http://skeptu.com/secure-alternatives-to-dropbox http://skeptu.com/secure-alternatives-to-dropbox
- highpixels 15y agoI'd love to see an Android client. I use Dropbox a lot with my phone, and really need some sort of encryption solution for it.