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Does Dropbox not use Amazon S3 as their storage engine anyway? This should have an open API?
by RachelF 13y ago
Does Dropbox not use Amazon S3 as their storage engine anyway? This should have an open API?
- mcpherrinm 13y agoDropbox does have an API, https://www.dropbox.com/developers https://www.dropbox.com/developers but this is about reverse engineering the client which seems to use things not here -- in particular, some authentication stuff. I haven't read in depth about why that allowed them to bypass 2-factor auth though.
- jontas 13y agoFrom the whitepaper (https://github.com/kholia/dedrop/blob/master/paper/accepted/woot13-paper1.pdf https://github.com/kholia/dedrop/blob/master/paper/accepted/...): > We found that two-factor authentication (as used by Dropbox) only protects against unauthorized access to the Dropbox’s website. The Dropbox internal client API does not support or use two-factor authentication!
- zeckalpha 13y agoDon't they use S3 internally? I assumed the desktop client does not access S3 directly, but that their server is middleware.