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Re: Ask HN: Secure Dropbox alternatives?

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TitanFile is great! They also sent an email out to customers this week with a preview of their new version and it looked like it had a much nicer UI as well.

TitanFile solves the problem of secure file sharing and tracking (accountability) as the data is secured end-to-end, there is notification of receipt/download (who accessed the files, where from, at what time etc) and ability to set files as read-only (access only from the browser window over SSL connection) as well as verify identity of recipient before giving them access to the files (2 factor authentication) without requiring recipient to have a TitanFile account.

Dropbox kicks ass as "file system of the internet" but sharing files with people in a secure and private way with dropbox is a big pain.

With next release we will integrate with dropbox and Google Docs as well.

Disclaimer: I am from TitanFile

Re: Ask HN: Secure Dropbox alternatives?

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post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. But you remove the benefit of syncing small diffs; you pretty much have to sync the entire truecrypt volume.

My (former) home network backup solution had a truecrypt volume created locally, and rsync'ed to my offsite backup provider (rsync.net). It did not have to send the entire volume for small diffs; in my experience, Truecrypt keeps local changes local in the volume.

That's a good point; thanks. I'm not sure if Dropbox diffs at sub-file level - perhaps it does.

The short story is that Dropbox + Truecrypt work fine, but may not (or may!) be optimal.

Re: Ask HN: Secure Dropbox alternatives?

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post #23

http://www.boxcryptor.com/ does client-side encryption for DropBox. Runs on Win, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android.

I've looked at this previously but * It seems to be closed source * The German government is involved (Close friends with the US)

Yes, it is closed source.

The German gov is involved?! Ha ha, the North Koreans as well?

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