Cloud Storage, What Do You Use?

[Somtamnication]

Yes, dropbox has the encryption keys and can, under a simple request from Big Brother USA, unencrypt your files. Not all of us use dropbox for articles. I use an encrypted container and upload it to dropbox. Pain in the ass, but it works.

[wimpy]

From Spideroak...

True Privacy

Your SpiderOak data is readable to you alone. Most online storage systems only encrypt your data during transmission, meaning anyone with physical access to the servers your data is stored on (such as the company's staff) could have access to it. Or, even if your data is encrypted during storage, your password (or set of encryption keys) is often stored along with your data, thus making its easily decoded by anyone with local access to those servers.

With SpiderOak, you create your password on your own computer -- not on a web form received by SpiderOak servers. Once created, a strong key derivation function is used to generate encryption keys using that password, and no trace of your original password is ever uploaded to SpiderOak with your stored data.

SpiderOak's encryption is comprehensive -- even with physical access to the storage servers, SpiderOak staff cannot know even the names of your files and folders. On the server side, all that SpiderOak staff can see, are sequentially numbered containers of encrypted data.

This means that you alone have responsibility for remembering your password or 'Password Hint' (which you can create to help you remember) allowing SpiderOak to create a true 'zero-knowledge environment' – keeping your data as safe and secure as it can possibly be.

[Jayman]

I'm not sure what all you guys are storing on these cloud storage servers but I get over 13GB free from dropbox and it's nearly all full and none of it is what I would consider sensitive. I do have a single folder that is double encrypted but I have yet to find the need to put even a single file into it.

[Jayman]

Found this article interesting and relevant to the discussion here

http://thenextweb.co...s-in-real-time/

This $299 tool is reportedly capable of decrypting BitLocker, PGP, and TrueCrypt disks in real-time

http://www.elcomsoft.com/efdd.html

Edited December 21, 2012 by Jayman

[JakeBKK]

The Register just did a piece on cloud computing - check it out: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/24/cloud_storage_reliability/

[dharmabm]

The Register just did a piece on cloud computing - check it out: http://www.theregist..._reliability/

your link has a blank space at the end, didn't work for me. but http://www.theregist...ge_reliability/

did

<edit> interesting article - my only comment would be that as far as data loss, i would hope that no one is stupid enough to make their ONLY backup in the cloud. otherwise a very interesting perspective</edit>

Edited December 25, 2012 by dharmabm

[JakeBKK]

The Register just did a piece on cloud computing - check it out: http://www.theregist..._reliability/

your link has a blank space at the end, didn't work for me. but http://www.theregist...ge_reliability/

did

<edit> interesting article - my only comment would be that as far as data loss, i would hope that no one is stupid enough to make their ONLY backup in the cloud. otherwise a very interesting perspective</edit>

oh. i noticed. could be a bug in cke, but it is not.

Edited December 25, 2012 by JakeBKK