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Re:10 petabytes - visualized by kayoone on Saturday January 15, 2011 @05:10PM (#2107960)
they encrypt all data and i dont think it would be wise of them analyzing their clients data for dupes...if somebody would get to know that their business would be gone.
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Re:10 petabytes - visualized by jodrellblank on Saturday January 15, 2011 @11:29PM (#2108658)
ZFS supports encryption with deduplication, and Dropbox does dedupe accross customers (and why not? It's not a human digging through things).

http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/compress_encrypt_checksum_... - ZFS link

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Re:10 petabytes - visualized by schumihan on Sunday January 16, 2011 @05:20AM (#2109116)
When different customers use different key to encrypt the data, even if the source is the same, the outcome is different. So it is not feasible to do de-duplication across different customers' data, unless all of them use the same key.
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