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Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by gtt »

Keyframe wrote: post #84
VexXtreme wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Data is encrypted client-side before being sent so I believe this is a non-issue.

Data being encrypted doesn't mean it can't be archived in that Utah data center. What capabilities they have there and what they do with it, we don't know. Substantial decryption breakthrough was hinted at in several reports, but what it is exactly - we have no idea.

>> Substantial decryption breakthrough was hinted at in several reports, but what it is exactly - we have no idea.

Could you provide a link to those hints, please?

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by quchen »

joewee wrote: post #36

How about Dropbox + TrueCrypt + Automount? Files are decrypted in memory, files you need to share you can keep in unencrypted format.

I've been doing this with a small volume (1 MiB), but it always kept me wondering how much traffic a minor change in an encrypted volume causes - even a single bit flip should drastically change the container if the encryption is good. I wouldn't want to upload for an hour each time I see a typo in my files.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by chanux »

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…

If you are on linux and if you don't think this method sucks... https://chanux.wordpress.com/2010/10/10/portable-encrypted-v...

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by iHypnos »

Hello there, Gianluca from Wuala here.

First, this is how Wuala works: You as an user place a file in the client. The file gets encrypted (including using your password and username) and then gets uploaded and split into different pieces. We are currently using AES-256 for encryption (and RSA 2048 fpr signature and key exchange when sharing a folder and SHA-256 for integrity checks). The password does NOT get transmitted and there is nothing like a master key or similar. That means in worst ever case if someone would have access to our servers somehow, they'd get a piece of encrypted data which is not readable and not decryptable (not even for us as the provider.

Secondly, some people tend to confuse security with anonymity. Wuala is secure, but how about anonymity? We have your email address, your username and we know how much storage space you have. As you see, that is not anonymous, but has nothing to do with the security of your files.

Are we planning to open source the code? Eventually yes, but as we already stated, this takes a lot of time and effort. Oh and yes, we are nice guys. Not because we're Swiss, but in general :)

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by da_n »

sabret00the wrote: post #33

It's from Lacie, so no thank you. I bought a Lacie drive and proceeded to copy all my stuff onto it. Before I could get comfortable with it (so within the first six months of purchase) and before I backed up my stuff, the drive failed. I contacted Lacie about it and they proceeded to try and sell me a service whereby they'd recover my data for €300. That would've brought my total spend on the drive up to around £400.…

You had 6 months and you didn't back-up your stuff? Why do you feel there is any blame to be laid at Lacie for this except for the mechanical failure which should have been under warranty? £300 is pretty reasonable for data recovery, it is only meant to be required when the user was dumb enough to not have a single backup. You put all your personal memories, music, films and professional data on one drive and expect sympathy? Learn from this, you are responsible for the safety of your data, have at least 2 backups.

Re: Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage

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Post by haakon »

showsover wrote: post #14
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/

It doesn't do local encryption before upload. There is an encryption plugin now, but it works server-side so you still have to trust the person running the server (which could be yourself, of course).
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