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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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