Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
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Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#2Excited to finally post it on HN. It's something I've been working on for the last year, though in a sense, for much longer!
Etebase is an open-source SDK and backend-as-a-service for building end-to-end encrypted applications. Think Firebase but end-to-end encrypted.
More users care about the privacy and security of their data every day, and encrypted applications are becoming mainstream. However, talking with developers, many get encryption wrong, and they don't even realise it. As good cryptography and bad cryptography look identical to the untrained eye.
The idea behind Etebase is to make an easy-to-use API to enable developers to build encrypted apps, and it's based on our learnings from building EteSync[2] over the years. There's still a lot more to get done, but Etebase is already used in GNOME, KDE, Tasks.org, EteSync, and more. With libraries available for Rust, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, Python and C/C++.
I hope Etebase will enable a new age of privacy-first and end-to-end encrypted applications, and that our data will no longer be used to track, analyze and manipulate us. Your data, yours only. Let's end-to-end encrypt everything!
I'd love to hear about your experience building encrypted applications. Got any questions? Suggestions? Please let me know!
Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#3Cool to see this launched here, we've been using EteSync for a while and it's nice to see it expanding to more end to end encrypted things!
Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#4Cool to see this launched here, we've been using EteSync for a while and it's nice to see it expanding to more end to end encrypted things!
Thanks. :)
As said in the other comment, our mission is to encrypt everything, and this is the next step towards that! It's actually something that we've been planning since forever, but it's so nice to finally have it out!
Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#5I make Beekeeper Studio (https://beekeeperstudio.io). This looks really interesting, especially as it is open source.
Do you have many FOSS users self-deploying it?
Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#6I make Beekeeper Studio ( https://beekeeperstudio.io ). This looks really interesting, especially as it is open source. Do you have many FOSS users self-deploying it?
Hard to know exactly as people get it from multiple sources, but there are a few hundred thousands downloads on Dockerhub, people run it from source, and it's packaged for OpenWrt, Arch (AUR), Fedora (COPR) and a few other Linux distributions. So yeah, quite a few users.
Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#7Cool to see this launched here, we've been using EteSync for a while and it's nice to see it expanding to more end to end encrypted things!
Thanks. :) As said in the other comment, our mission is to encrypt everything, and this is the next step towards that! It's actually something that we've been planning since forever, but it's so nice to finally have it out!
That's an awesome mission. More power to you! The product seems incredible.
Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks. :) As said in the other comment, our mission is to encrypt everything, and this is the next step towards that! It's actually something that we've been planning since forever, but it's so nice to finally have it out!
That's an awesome mission. More power to you! The product seems incredible.
Thanks! :)
Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#9Excited to finally post it on HN. It's something I've been working on for the last year, though in a sense, for much longer! Etebase is an open-source SDK and backend-as-a-service for building end-to-end encrypted applications. Think Firebase but end-to-end encrypted. More users care about the privacy and security of their data every day, and encrypted applications are becoming mainstream. However, talking with devel…
Is there any technical document describing how it works ? For example, order-preserving indices (for range queries) are often an issue in end-to-end databases ; did your design allow to you to provide them, or did you just consider solving this problem out-of-scope ?
Re: Show HN: Etebase – An open source and end-to-end encrypted Firebase alternative
#10I make Beekeeper Studio ( https://beekeeperstudio.io ). This looks really interesting, especially as it is open source. Do you have many FOSS users self-deploying it?
Off topic, but just checked out Beekeeper - Seems like a solid SQL IDE! Had been using Postico before, but going to give yours a try.