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Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by mvanbaak »

indigodaddy wrote: post #80
mvanbaak wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of those questions are answered in their FAQ. The Duple application on your 'server' will simply expose a directory on that system (or a remote SFTP server) to other Duple applications you connect to it. All data will be on the machine you maintain. So no, they are not storing your data for you. To enable access to your device from outside your local network, you have to either give the Duple running machine a…

So this concept is similar to BitTorrent Sync? (Or whatever it’s called now)

Yups, and syncthing as well. and probably others.

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by peterwwillis »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #52
dochtman wrote: post #44

Apart from all the other stuff, it seems suspicious that they would use Serpent for encryption, rather than using AES or another more well-known cipher suite (also, no talk about AEAD). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_(cipher)

The article you link perhaps hint at why the developers felt like this: The NIST report apparently suggested Serpent was actually a bit more secure, but Rijndael was chosen for AES because it allowed for a more efficient software implementation. The developers may feel that that trade-off wasn't worth it, although obviously, going with a less-common strategy for encryption is generally discouraged.

Which is crazy. AES is good enough for TOP SECRET, it's the most widely supported & vetted modern cipher, and all modern hardware has instruction sets dedicated to it that prevent timing side channels (which Serpent can't claim). Not using AES here is a product design red flag.

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by wheresvic3 »

I'm sorry but Nextcloud is getting a bit of an unfair shake here. I recently got a raspberry pi 4 and installing nextcloud on there wasn't rocket science: https://smalldata.tech/blog/2019/07/12/setting-up-a-raspberr...

In fact the biggest issue that I faced was that my router did not support NAT loopback which led me to using the pi for DNS in order to be able to use my "private" cloud.

Nextcloud is an open-source dropbox and is written in PHP. It can be very easily installed via docker and is quite mature at this point with a rich ecosystem of 3rd party apps for functionality other than file sync. Big props to the folks working on it!

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by mvanbaak »

tannhaeuser wrote: post #75
mvanbaak wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After the latest update the mac mini is actually a very fine server. They can be configured to hold a 6-core i7 with 64gb RAM.

Not bad I guess, though I failed to find a decent review telling even what CPU and wattage the thing has, let alone how to run it with Linux. Haven't considered a Mac Mini for the job since mine is so dog-slow I'd rather run CI on my notebook.

Have a look here: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/specs/mac-mini-c...

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by sealthedeal »

From a problem solution perspective.

Your "why" section does not actually describe "why". Its more listing reason why you think this is good. I was hoping to see more of "Why" your own private cloud is a good idea. You are describing the solution not the problem. Hope that is helpful in some way :)

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by adamredwoods »

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #40

They have some fairly hefty competition: https://www.synology.com/en-us/dsm/feature/drive https://www.drobo.com/homeoffice/#file I'm pretty sure that most NAS vendors have some variation on "Home Cloud." I think most folks that want to set something like this up, will want a turnkey solution.

Looking at their "about us" page removed my confidence from their product. They should fix that asap.

For my data, I want reliability and security. I want something that has been battle-tested, and that I am confident will be around in a few years. This is why I went with Synology. Two guys in a "garage/bootstrapping" does not instill confidence.

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by cik »

I finally ditched SpiderOak for SyncThing about a month ago - and I haven't looked back. It solves all of these issues, I fully host it myself, and I can access everything, exactly the way I want to based on shares.

I have a machine in my office, a shared folder on my mobile, two machines at home, and my wife has her office, and her work laptop. It's everything these things should be, other than the lack of an iOS app for her.

Re: Show HN: Duple – Private cloud at home

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Post by tlb »

kube-system wrote: post #89
JoshuaMulliken wrote: post #64

"military-grade encryption" in marketing materials always scares me. Just tell me what the algos are

ROT13 of course, designed to Roman military specifications.

Caesar ciphers mostly shifted by 1 or 3. Their alphabet had only 23 letters (no J, U, or W) so ROT-13 wouldn't had the cool property of being its own inverse.
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