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Re:Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypte... by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:17PM (#25064185)
The deal with mine, is the encryption is left to the client. The server just stores a binary "thing." That "thing" can be an encrypted envelope, managed by the client[s]. Since it's a closed-loop system, then a key could be shared programmatically, outside the purview of the server.
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Re:Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypte... by tasn on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @06:20PM (#25064203)
Yeah, in Etebase the server also just sees "things", though it tries to make it easy on the client to only get what's changed and etc.
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Re:Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypte... by fabrice_d on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @10:17PM (#25066018)
Just curious, how does that differ from a system like Firefox sync which is also using client side encryption?
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Re:Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypte... by tasn on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:16AM (#25067306)
I don't think Firefox sync makes it very easy for devs to build other encrypted applications. Even if they did however, there are a lot of challenges with encrypted applications that they just don't take care of. Not to mention that they are very we centric and don't have developer APIs in many languages.
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