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Re:A System to Transparently Compress Hundreds of Petabytes ... by ghayes on Monday November 30, 2020 @01:28AM (#25251226)
Not necessarily. You could use homomorphic encryption and, for example, encode the file with a hash of the file as the key material for encryption. All such files will encode identically for each user, but it will be opaque to the server what the contents are unless the server already has the plain-text of the original file. This was used by other cloud storage companies (that are now defunct).
Re:A System to Transparently Compress Hundreds of Petabytes ... by Dylan16807 on Monday November 30, 2020 @05:23AM (#25252385)
Convergent encryption, not homomorphic, is what you use to deduplicate encrypted files.
Re:A System to Transparently Compress Hundreds of Petabytes ... by rvnx on Monday November 30, 2020 @02:34AM (#25251506)
https://techcrunch.com/2011/06/20/dropbox-security-bug-made-...

This makes me believe there is no problem for Dropbox to read content in clear.

Re:A System to Transparently Compress Hundreds of Petabytes ... by TeMPOraL on Monday November 30, 2020 @04:18AM (#25252079)
> Not necessarily. You could use homomorphic encryption

I think that's still far from being possible in practice. IIRC, the best homomorphic encryption can do now is to run simple queries on very small datasets, on a supercomputer, with performance of a 386?