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Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 5, 2014 at 04:56 PM
Hi.
I hope it’s only half off-topic: I am about to move more of my stuff over to Dropbox because sharing databases and manuscripts via USB sticks and keeping things up-to-date is getting more and more cumbersome.
So: What do you use to encrypt your content in the Cloud? I use mainly Dropbox across Windows, iOS and Mac OS X.
Or do you use a “private cloud”? If so: Which software?
Thanks, Franz
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 5, 2014 at 05:58 PM
Dropbox hasn’t got a very good rep for encryption. For business purposes, we use Soonr.com. For personal purposes, I tend to use OneDrive and (yes, you may laugh) iCloud (which will shortly become a more Dropbox-like service, with a proper Windows client). Google Drive I no longer trust, unfortunately. There are other options, however: Box has just strengthened their encryption and security.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 5, 2014 at 08:16 PM
Dropbox itself does not encrypt the content of the folders.
I was asking about services such as Boxcryptor (btw a German company, I could even visit them, they`re about 1 hour away) or Cloudfogger or Truecrypt in combination with DB (though that does not work on my iPad).
Thanks, Franz
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 5, 2014 at 08:19 PM
LOL
I could also visit the Cloudfogger team - they’re 2 hours away.
Funny, the 2 encryption solutions for Dropbox were developed by German companies.
Posted by dan7000
Sep 5, 2014 at 11:50 PM
I have used Boxcryptor for almost 2 years and I recommend it highly.
Boxcryptor is very secure because it does all encryption on the client—your passphrase is never transmitted over the network. Of course, this means that if you forget your passphrase you lose all of your data. So don’t do that :)
I also love bc because it has an ipad client. So all of my work documents are available seamlessly on my ipad and my laptop.
Finally, I have never had sync issues or server access problems like I seem to have with all other cloud clients I’ve tried, and I’ve tried a lot, most recently sugarsync and onedrive, both of which had constant, nasty sync and access issues.