Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by highball-it on Saturday July 20, 2013 @12:51PM (#6075699)

You have to trust the VPS provider.

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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by Tho85 on Saturday July 20, 2013 @12:58PM (#6075715)

You don't have to if you use EncFS. All encryption is done client-side.

The only thing your VPS provider could do is delete your files, but Unison's backup feature should protect you from losing your files (in a way).

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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by bmslieght on Saturday July 20, 2013 @01:10PM (#6075749)

Your VPS provider, can in effect, chroot in to your environment, so EncFS is vunerable.

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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by pyre on Saturday July 20, 2013 @02:18PM (#6076014)

The EncFS is mounted locally (client-side), so the files aren't decrypted at all on the server-side. You're just syncing fully encrypted files.

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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by duaneb on Saturday July 20, 2013 @01:32PM (#6075839)

If encryption is done client-side, the data is still encrypted server-side and chrooting does nothing.

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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by Tho85 on Saturday July 20, 2013 @01:33PM (#6075841)

What do you mean by 'vulnerable'? All encryption is done on your computer/notebook, so a chroot on the server doesn't decrypt the files.

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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by muyuu on Saturday July 20, 2013 @03:22PM (#6076210)

Yep. This is an important point.

I can still follow this guide to create my online-NAS box and use it across devices.

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