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Re:Kim Dotcom's back with a new 50GB free storage service: Mega by gorm on Sunday January 20, 2013 @08:48PM (#5089351)
> That said, Mega's also claims that their service saves room on its over-burdened servers by keeping a single copy of identical files How do they do that if they don't know their users' password? Good question. We don't know the answer.

How can they do this and still keep information about the file unavailable?

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Re:Kim Dotcom's back with a new 50GB free storage service: Mega by truebecomefalse on Sunday January 20, 2013 @08:58PM (#5089394)
Googled for encrypted de-duplication: http://www.ssrc.ucsc.edu/Papers/storer-storagess08.pdf
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