Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07)

Re:Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) by dcurtis on Thursday September 11, 2008 @05:14PM (#301778)

I use an encrypted Mac OS X disk image on my Dropbox. It works well.

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Re:Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) by tlrobinson on Thursday September 11, 2008 @07:24PM (#301887)

Every time you make any change to the image it needs to sync the whole thing, right? Seems wasteful to me, there must be a better solution.

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Re:Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) by whacked_new on Thursday September 11, 2008 @08:25PM (#301944)

My impression is that cperciva is after this problem, but the wait seems indefinite.

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Re:Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) by Herring on Thursday September 11, 2008 @08:03PM (#301923)

I really doubt it. The whole point to encryption is that the storage area doesn't know anything about your files.

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Re:Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) by dcurtis on Thursday September 11, 2008 @09:36PM (#301993)

It doesn't. It just syncs the byte changes.

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Re:Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) by tlrobinson on Friday September 12, 2008 @02:35AM (#302188)

But depending on the encryption scheme, a single byte changed in the unencrypted data can result in the entire encrypted image being different.

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Re:Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) by dcurtis on Friday September 12, 2008 @05:09AM (#302260)

It's 128-bit AES. I haven't had a problem yet.

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Re:Dropbox finally launches to the public (YC summer 07) by Herring on Friday September 12, 2008 @05:22PM (#302712)

technically half the bits change, on average

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