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Re:Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely by forapurpose on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:25PM (#16640977)
> When you lose your password, we send you your password recovery key and you can decrypt your password with it.

Having the password recovery keys, can you decrypt user passwords? Does that matter in this scenario?

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Re:Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely by twiss on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:31PM (#16641038)
No, because the password encrypted with the password recovery key is never sent to the server. It's encrypted and downloaded entirely on the client.
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Re:Airborn: Create and edit f​iles online​, securely by esseti on Thursday March 22, 2018 @05:10AM (#16647011)
then, if i format the pc or my hd breaks I can't do anything?
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