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Another article https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/29/dropbox-acquires-boxcryptor-assets-to-bring-zero-knowledge-encryption-to-file-storage/ https://techcrunch.com

• barbazoo 4y ago
  > client side encryption to business users
  • namkt 4y ago
    Encryption is not for the poor.
    • barbazoo 4y ago
      The way I interpreted it was that it won't even apply to the paid "personal" plans.
  • willis936 4y ago
    Too bad. I cancelled my dropbox sub and moved to TrueNAS Scale + Nextcloud + B2 rclone last year. Dropbox could have me back anytime they want me.
  • insanitybit 4y ago
    There are significant costs to encryption. Any deduplication is gone, losing a single "chunk" invalidates the entire file with no hope of recovery, and, more importantly, support costs are way higher - "I lost a password" becomes "I lost every file, I'll never recover them".
    • laluser 4y ago
      Dedeuplication is a huge cost at scale.
      • insanitybit 4y ago
        I'm not sure what you mean. Deduplication by hash is free and exactly how Dropbox works, as I recall.
        • dogma1138 4y ago
          Deduplication doesn’t work with client side encryption, at least not securely because it at the least exposes that the file already exists.
          • insanitybit 4y ago
            Yes, we agree.
    • layer8 4y ago
      The non-business plans (Plus/Family) are already not cheap, especially if you only need a fraction of the storage space.
• dang 4y ago
  We've changed to the third-party article from https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/blog/post/new-chapter-with-dropbox/ https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/blog/post/new-chapter-with-dro.... Generally we prefer the best third-party article (if there is one) to a corporate press release: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=press%20release%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....
  • aborsy 4y ago
    Thank you for the clarification. Will keep that in mind, next time!