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Re:SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage by rarrrrrr on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:28PM (#13303685)
Thanks for the feedback. For what it's worth, we did try a bunch of alternative wordings, and Zero Knowledge was the phrase that non technologists found most accessible.

We prioritized making the explanation clear to non-experts vs. to the community of cryptographers.

Re:SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage by Esau on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:31PM (#13304214)
I believe your explanation but it still strikes me as the wrong thing to do.
Re:SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage by StavrosK on Monday January 02, 2017 @06:33PM (#13305400)
I'd like to propose "Zero Access", as in zero access to the plaintext.
Re:SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage by nickpsecurity on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:16PM (#13305611)
That's actually not bad. I was fine with SpiderOak going for a term that is simple, catchy, and easy to market. Zero Access is the kind of alternative that might work. That specific one might have a problem: send perception of user having zero access to their own data when most clouds constantly reinforce "access from anywhere any time."

You're thinking along the right lines. I think variations of the words safe and vault have worked for other companies, too, given people understand what they do. "Your data is in a locked vault that we hold for you while you keep the keys or combination." That sort of thing.

Re:SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage by B1FF_PSUVM on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:56PM (#13321957)
They could go with "Know nothing".

(Or "Jon Snow", for short, if they can get away with it without being sued - "Jon S. crypto, we dont know nuthing" ;-)

Re:SpiderOakONE – Zero Knowledge Cloud Storage by jameskegel on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:50PM (#13304384)
This doesn't feel like the correct solution.