The full end-to-end encrypted backup and sharing experience is provided by Slik. We use Storj only for storing the encrypted blobs, or simply as a replacement of S3.
> The website tells me I can pay by solana (or even by credit card!), but there seems to be no indication of how much I actually would have to pay.
Our detailed pricing page is currently available within our web/desktop apps. You can pay - 0.1 SOL for 10 GB lifetime storage (10 years), or
- $4.99/mo for 500GB storage, and so on..
This is similar to the problem of leaving your device accidentally open, which unfortunately is a much harder problem to solve. However, we do provide a way for you to remotely wipe a device in case of unauthorized access.
> There seems to be a lot of metadata on sliks side, or is it using some form of encrypted search?
All your metadata is encrypted on your device before it is backed up to Slik. We provide client side search experience so that Slik is unaware of even the keywords that the user is searching for.
The website tells me I can pay by solana (or even by credit card!), but there seems to be no indication of how much I actually would have to pay.
The claims are also not exactly thought out:
> No Backdoors > > Since all your files are encrypted on your device, there is no way for us at Slik Safe to access them ever. Even if we wanted, we could never access them.
That does not follow from the provided info. Simply leaking the keys in some form would already be enought as a backdoor, as the data is obviously not only stored locally.
There seems to be a lot of metadata on sliks side, or is it using some form of encrypted search?
Reminds me of "the good ol time" while working on distributed storage, getting annoyed about the filecoin whitepaper and its inaccuracies and missing references (which of course got much much further than our small research project)!