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Makes perfect sense to me if you don't trust your host not to report you. Keys are small enough to just send in a private chat rather than hosted alongside the
by jschmitz28 13y ago
Makes perfect sense to me if you don't trust your host not to report you. Keys are small enough to just send in a private chat rather than hosted alongside the encrypted file.
- holyjaw 13y ago> if you don't trust your host not to report you Don't do illegal shit on Dropbox; problem solved.
- nitrogen 13y agoLaws are numerous and vary from place to place. Such simplistic advice can never capture the nuances of every "right" decision everywhere.
- schoen 13y agoIt sounds like this is starting down the path of "not trusting cloud servers in particular ways". At the end of that path lies Tahoe LAFS, which tries to do online file storage while avoiding trusting the servers at all. https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs (One of the properties of Tahoe is managing the keys to decrypt data completely outside of the servers, so that the servers never have any knowledge of what they're storing.)