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Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source

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Re: Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source

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Post by aw3c2 »

dcposch wrote: post #10

This is awesome. End-to-end encryption is the natural solution to the problem of universal surveillance as well as more mundane issues, like companies losing data and servers getting hacked. I think it's very elegant that one can build useful services with untrusted servers. The algorithms for end-to-end encryption are there, but usability of actual implementations has been pretty terrible so far. For example, compar…

See http://freeplant.gitbooks.io/seafile-server-manual/ and https://github.com/haiwen/seafile-docs , that's the software this provider uses.

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Post by aw3c2 »

XorNot wrote: post #3

So this seems bold. I just cloned all the repos, thinking I'll try and dockerize the server end to see what it's like.

Watch out, the repos are out of date from upstream which is https://github.com/haiwen/ . You probably want security fixes and updates from that...

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Post by nmjohn »

digital-rubber wrote: post #6

"All of our code is open source and can be reviewed by anyone. This guarantees maximum security." Can be reviewed doesn't mean has been reviewed. Nor does it imply any quality of review, or the quality of the reviewers itself. And the knife cuts on two sides, though only one side is mentioned, the one side that should attract users. Not the side, that every evil minded person can look through the source code, abuse i…

> that every evil minded person can look through the source code, abuse it, before we were able to counter/fix etc it.

I think this is a worthy application of the phrase It's a feature, not a bug.

Closed source necessitates that the software hasn't been reviewed by independent programmers, only the authors.

Open source, while it doesn't necessitate that the software has been reviewed, it at least provides the potential for it.

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Post by mobiplayer »

This is the pinnacle of bootstrapping or even the lean startup: Launch early. So early that they didn't need to code much, which is great! it is also great to see businesses growing (or trying to) around open source developments.

Doesn't anyone want to see Seafile further developed? If these guys get traction, they surely will have to chip in Seafile, be it with cash or contributing code themselves.

What's wrong with this, HN? Seafile could be great, but it's nothing if not implemented. Someone has to maintain those servers and take care of security. That's why SaaS does exist.

Why is no one asking questions about how they deployed Seafile? What are they plans to scale? Did they run any load test? Please, something interesting.

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Post by finid »

I just installed the Ubuntu client on Linux Mint 17.1. Ran into a dependency issue, but "sudo apt-get -f install" fixed it.

The client and the Web dashboard still need some work, which they alluded to in the introductory video.

Overall, I think this looks very promising. will wait and see what the next few months brings.

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Post by dominikmauritz »

nodefortytwo wrote: post #38

With ubuntu client, is there a cli exposed? we use ubuntu servers for our infrastructure, it would be nice to deliver files from certain servers to non-techincal users, is that possible

Thats not possible. At least not yet.

Re: Show HN: End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. All Open Source

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Post by kcorbitt »

I love Seafile, and am running it on my own VPS right now as my primary file sync/store.

I'd love for more companies to pop up offering hosted Seafile instances. Right now I'm hosting my own because I like having the guarantee that it won't get pulled out from under me or change the TOS in an unexpected way, but I don't like being my own sysadmin when things go wrong (not that things go wrong frequently -- the software is high quality and stable). If there were multiple competing providers it could form an ecosystem like Wordpress where the risk of bad actors is low because of how easy it is to pick up your data and move to another platform with a minimum of fuss.

However, based on the lengths disk42 has gone to to omit any reference to the Seafile project, it appears they aren't interested in participating in that ecosystem, which is a shame. I guess I'll just have to keep waiting.

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