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Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by Tho85 » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 5:56 PM UTC

Osmium wrote: post #20

This looks cool, but of course you can also use encfs directly with Dropbox or, if you prefer a graphical interface, Boxcryptor[1] have a fork of encfs specifically for cloud storage along with some platform-specific apps. [1] https://www.boxcryptor.com

I used that combination before, it works really nice. But at some point I hit the storage limit and had to come up with a self-hosted solution.

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by Bjoern » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:04 PM UTC

How does this solution measure up to hosting your own Owncloud or alike? Any upsides / downsides? I'm wondering because many non-technical people need a dead simple solution for this if you want to substitute Dropbox.

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by pavs » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

I am using Owncloud, super easy to install[1]. I have a non-us/eu vps storage solution, despite reading others having problem with it, its working great for me.

[1] http://www.slashgeek.net/2013/05/16/host-your-own-dropbox-li...

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by emerika » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:08 PM UTC

Are people looking at bitTorrent Sync? (http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html) I'm uing it on a laptop, a server and my android devices. It works great. Seemless.

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by wazoox » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:08 PM UTC

Bjoern wrote: post #22

How does this solution measure up to hosting your own Owncloud or alike? Any upsides / downsides? I'm wondering because many non-technical people need a dead simple solution for this if you want to substitute Dropbox.

From what I've seen, Owncloud doesn't provide encryption (files are lying in the clear on the server); furthermore I didn't dig much into the web app part, but I wouldn't bet it to be extremely robust security-wise.

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by Joeboy » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:11 PM UTC

emerika wrote: post #24

Are people looking at bitTorrent Sync? ( http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html ) I'm uing it on a laptop, a server and my android devices. It works great. Seemless.

Closed source is a dealbreaker for lots of people.

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by pyre » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:18 PM UTC

bmslieght wrote: post #6

Tho85 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't have to if you use EncFS. All encryption is done client-side. The only thing your VPS provider could do is delete your files, but Unison's backup feature should protect you from losing your files (in a way).

Your VPS provider, can in effect, chroot in to your environment, so EncFS is vunerable.

The EncFS is mounted locally (client-side), so the files aren't decrypted at all on the server-side. You're just syncing fully encrypted files.

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by icebraining » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:28 PM UTC

brymaster wrote: post #8

This should be taken a step further and have a UI and web control panel just like the real dropbox.

Like this? http://git-annex.branchable.com/design/assistant/blog/day_23...

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by mikevm » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:32 PM UTC

I'd never heard of Backupsy before, looks very cool!

What is special about their VPS offering that makes it so cheap? I mean, from what I can see for an extra $2/month they let you host websites and install anything you want (except torrents, TOR or anything illegal).

I've been wanting to have an affordable VPS solution so I could be host my own stuff, and have the freedom to experiment with various development tools, and this might be a decent deal.

Re: Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone

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Post by VuongN » Sat, Jul 20, 2013, 6:43 PM UTC

One question: how do you share files securely with others? Have you check out our company's free products, http://ncryptedcloud.com? We secure your data before it goes into Dropbox, allow securely sharing and many more features for FREE to all our consumer users! We only charge for things like auditing beyond certain amount of times, single sign-on integrations, enterprise stuff etc. All we want to do is secure this whole cloud mess.