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| Authored by: kuroshima on Saturday, November 03 2012 @ 06:57 AM EDT |
As far as I know, that's exactly what the new mega upload is
going to do. Everything will be encrypted client side,
though in this case the goal isn't to protect their users'
privacy but to get plausible deniability. I think that there
is already a cloud storage provider that offer client side
encrypted storage, and so should you lose the password,
serial your files are gone forever. Let me look for it...
I went back and checked, and not only Wuala's servers are
said to reside in Switzerland, but they have client side,
encryption... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 03 2012 @ 07:42 AM EDT |
The UK has that covered under the RIP act.
2 years jail for failing to disclose your password
no trial,
5 more years should you dare to tell anyone what kind of
injustice has just been served on your for failing to give
up your password.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, November 03 2012 @ 08:14 AM EDT |
Full encryption (host-proof hosting) is an obscene burden on systems not
designed with that security from the ground up.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: tknarr on Saturday, November 03 2012 @ 01:03 PM EDT |
That comes with some technical problems. The main one is that server-side
programs like databases can't process your data. To process it they'd need the
key to decrypt it, and they don't have the key since it's only client-side. That
scotches a lot of the uses for cloud computing. The only thing you can do is
store bulk data for download, and the encryption means you have to download all
of it to modify any bit of it. No remote filesystem-type access, you're back to
"download the whole file, modify it, re-upload it".
And here's a nasty
follow-on: if you don't own your data because it's on someone else's servers, do
you own your own servers if they're installed in someone else's data center? I'd
say by the government's argument the answer is "No.", which means you can't even
co-locate your own private servers. You have to own outright not just the
machines but the data center they're installed in to be safe. There goes any
chance of using any sort of hosting provider at all. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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