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I've always thought this would be amazing for file storage in general. A Dropbox that just syncs with the cloud encrypting your content with a private key and y

I've always thought this would be amazing for file storage in general. A Dropbox that just syncs with the cloud encrypting your content with a private key and you can withdraw it at any time. You simply give back say 5 x as much storage as you use for the data mirroring.

brasky 11y ago
Like http://storj.io/ http://storj.io/ ? I think they have a lot of code to write though.
- askmike 11y ago
  Don't forget http://maidsafe.net/ http://maidsafe.net/
  - mseri 11y ago
    Wow they are moving to Rust. It's going to be quite interesting
m_mueller 11y ago
AFAIK this was the concept behind Wuala. Founded in Switzerland, later bought by French company LaCie. According to their website the clien side encryption is still there, however they discontinued the collaborative disk space business model.
- ianopolous 11y ago
  We're trying to recreate that concept with peergos, https://github.com/ianopolous/Peergos https://github.com/ianopolous/Peergos we're considering trying to use ipfs, http://ipfs.io http://ipfs.io under the hood which would be nice. Wuala was great but they never open sourced it and stopped the storage earning in 2008.