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Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox

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Re: Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox

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Post by DerArzt »

arpitagarwal wrote: post #189
gentleman11 wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If a quantum computer gets good enough to crack common encryption algorithms, what are the consequences for decentralized storage? Could some hostile nation state just collect and store the data until such time they can decrypt it?

That's a great point. However, in Slik's case, the data is first fragmented into small chunks and then distributed into a decentralized storage. Thus, for a bad actor to pose a problem, they'll also have to collect all the encrypted chunks, before making any sense out of it.

Okay so the chunks are distributed, a follow up question is are they duplicated to multiple copies per chunk? I ask because if one chunk is lost then the data would be unusable wouldn't it?

Re: Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox

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Post by volkk »

Quindecillion wrote: post #185
volkk wrote: post #109

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i think this is mostly because of the maturity/popularity of the tooling, not the underlying aspect of centralization. if there was a just as slick, widespread and useful decentralized alternative, i would be on that instead.

Depends on what problem the adoption of decentralisation is solving. There's no point choosing a decentralised option just for the sake of it.

i think i would choose decentralized almost all of the time if it worked the same performance wise

Re: Show HN: SlikSafe – A decentralized, end-to-end encrypted alternative to Dropbox

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Post by ThinkBeat »

The problem with decentralized as far as what I have used so far, is that you require a whole host of unknown people to donate X amount of storage space to the network.

With IPFS systems I have tried so far you have to struggle to find anyone who has any motivation in storing your stuff for you. Let alone 4 people.

Back in the "good old days" a truly distributed P2P system existed to "exchange" mp3 (all legal of course), and other files. People had incentives to share what they and what they got.

This is still true for some BitTorrent content but it is not very stable most of the time. (People do not seed for long), though there are incentives to seed a lot.

If you dont rely on strangers to store your files and you are paying Digital Ocean S3 or some such it is not really. But sure you can pay multiple providers to store thenm for you.

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