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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by insanitybit on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @01:49PM (#33791515)
There are significant costs to encryption. Any deduplication is gone, losing a single "chunk" invalidates the entire file with no hope of recovery, and, more importantly, support costs are way higher - "I lost a password" becomes "I lost every file, I'll never recover them".
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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by laluser on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:25PM (#33791980)
Dedeuplication is a huge cost at scale.
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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by insanitybit on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:54PM (#33792375)
I'm not sure what you mean. Deduplication by hash is free and exactly how Dropbox works, as I recall.
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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by dogma1138 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @07:21PM (#33795272)
Deduplication doesn’t work with client side encryption, at least not securely because it at the least exposes that the file already exists.
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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by insanitybit on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @09:45PM (#33796378)
Yes, we agree.
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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by layer8 on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @05:04PM (#33794015)
The non-business plans (Plus/Family) are already not cheap, especially if you only need a fraction of the storage space.
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