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Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by levosmetalo » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:05 AM UTC

quchen wrote: post #2

Sounds cool! I've been looking for a trustable Dropbox alternative so I don't have to manually encrypt the contents all the time. I'll download and try it out real q- > Make sure Java [...] is installed. :C

I've been using it for almost a year now on my Windows, Linux and Android. Didn't have any issues so far. I would recommend the service to everyone concerned with privacy.

The only thing that one can be suspicious is whether they are transferring your key or not. But, at least they claim your data is safe and encrypted, while Dropbox, GDrive and similar services don't even pretend that they encrypt your data.

However, would still love to see an open source product like this that I can truly trust.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by pellias » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:06 AM UTC

Floodgate is opening up just like when Google shutdown it's reader. Let's see who will be the winner.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by illumen » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:07 AM UTC

simgidacav wrote: post #6

Not to be cynic, but what prevents those guys from putting a backdoor as well? Yeah, sure, Swiss guys are good. Are they? In the end, IMHO, the only software which can be trusted is the FOSS. From this perspective Dropbox is good: the client is open source. Of course nothing is encrypted in there.

Indeed. But at least there is no proof so far that they are doing it. However, France also monitors internet/com equipment, so it is indeed possible they will be required to put in a backdoor.

Still, FOSS solutions are indeed better from a security perspective.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by showsover » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:07 AM UTC

maggit wrote: post #9

I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-alternative. So if any of you are making one, please speak up :) (Edit) I should specify that it was the user experience that made me give up on Wuala, and any proper Dropbox alternativ…

What about owncloud? http://owncloud.org/

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by noinsight » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:07 AM UTC

maggit wrote: post #9

I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-alternative. So if any of you are making one, please speak up :) (Edit) I should specify that it was the user experience that made me give up on Wuala, and any proper Dropbox alternativ…

Spideroak supposedly offers that, but it's still U.S. based. They haven't open sourced their client (they've stated they will) so it's hard to completely verify.

If you want to host it yourself there's Seafile but I haven't seen any in-depth review of it and it's Chinese-based (if that's a problem [for you]).

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by davidjgraph » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:08 AM UTC

simgidacav wrote: post #6

Not to be cynic, but what prevents those guys from putting a backdoor as well? Yeah, sure, Swiss guys are good. Are they? In the end, IMHO, the only software which can be trusted is the FOSS. From this perspective Dropbox is good: the client is open source. Of course nothing is encrypted in there.

A back-door in where, exactly?

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by davidjohnstone » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:10 AM UTC

maggit wrote: post #9

I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-alternative. So if any of you are making one, please speak up :) (Edit) I should specify that it was the user experience that made me give up on Wuala, and any proper Dropbox alternativ…

On my "somebody should create this, and I might eventually" list is an open source, P2P, optionally server-backed, encrypted Dropbox replacement.

Bittorrent's Sync almost gets there, but isn't open source. I haven't really looked at it, but ownCloud might do what I want.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by ZeroMinx » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:10 AM UTC

maggit wrote: post #9

I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-alternative. So if any of you are making one, please speak up :) (Edit) I should specify that it was the user experience that made me give up on Wuala, and any proper Dropbox alternativ…

Check out Bittorrent Sync, http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by moystard » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:11 AM UTC

Despite thorough researches and testing, I have never been able to find a good alternative to Dropbox in term of seamless synchronisation of my files, and accessibility across all the platforms I use.

To secure my data, I just use BoxCryptor. It creates an encrypted volume within my Dropbox. It is free for non commercial use.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by simgidacav » Mon, Jun 10, 2013, 10:12 AM UTC

maggit wrote: post #9

I recently tried replacing Dropbox with Wuala because of privacy concerns. I failed, and in the process realized how successful Dropbox has been in creating an awesome user experience! I'm still looking for a locally encrypted Dropbox-alternative. So if any of you are making one, please speak up :) (Edit) I should specify that it was the user experience that made me give up on Wuala, and any proper Dropbox alternativ…

Immagine a net of people sharing Dropbox accounts where encrypted data is stored, and a decentralized encrypted network for handling the meta-data.

Wouldn't that be nice?

At this point: gpg keys shared among chains of trust. Need the file X? DHT consulted says the file is stored in accounts Y, Z and W (plus at your home - we don't want users to kill our files, right?). Take the file, decrypt it.