Tell HN: All Quip and Evernote documents are stored unencrypted on their servers

Re:Tell HN: All Quip and Evernote documents are stored unenc... by amk_ on Tuesday June 13, 2017 @11:52PM (#14550547)

"Search everything" is a big value prop for Evernote. You can't search E2E encrypted database records without transporting them to the client and decrypting them there.

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Re:Tell HN: All Quip and Evernote documents are stored unenc... by seveneightn9ne on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @11:36AM (#14553490)

The OP isn't surprised they don't use E2E encryption - that's mostly reserved for the most security-conscious use cases, because as you say, there's a lot of usability to gain from having read access from the server. However, at-rest encryption is a total no-brainer.

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Re:Tell HN: All Quip and Evernote documents are stored unenc... by arikr on Thursday June 15, 2017 @01:47AM (#14558172)

Also why wouldn't they be locally loaded on the client?

As other commenter noted my point of confusion is why they don't have at-rest encryption

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