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I am wondering the same thing. From their website: "Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit." (see: https://www.notion.so/help/security-and-privacy https:
by wouterjanl 4y ago
I am wondering the same thing. From their website: "Your data is encrypted at rest and in transit." (see: https://www.notion.so/help/security-and-privacy https://www.notion.so/help/security-and-privacy). I am not really sure what that means.
- Terretta 4y agoDecoding for all "we take your security seriously" pages on the web: In transit means https (like your comment getting sent to this page). At rest means the underlying store uses a key, like S3, or even HDD encryption. It's encrypted on write to the disk, and decrypted on read. This may be fantastic for when nation state black ops sneak into the data center and remove the server's drives for forensic analysis, useless for anything else. (To be fair, it's useful on a laptop. Not so useful in a data center.) Neither of these means it's encrypted between reading disk and sending over HTTPS. Neither one means employees, servers, or clients, can't see your data.
- wouterjanl 4y agoThanks for the clear and detailed response! It's what I feared it meant. It's a pity they need to use such deceptive language, I find. I really liked notion as a product. This is kind of a wakeup call for me that using the cloud pretty much means giving up control - and not just theoretically.