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Posted by dan7000
Sep 5, 2014 at 11:51 PM
One thing I forgot - boxcryptor released a new version (2.0) sometime in the past year. I can’t recall why, but when I researched it I decided not to upgrade - so there might be something better about the old v1.5 boxcryptor that I’m still using.
Posted by dan7000
Sep 5, 2014 at 11:55 PM
Sorry one more thing about bc: you can use dropbox versioning with boxcryptor. So if I want to roll back a change to a file, I can go to dropbox and restore an earlier version (I think it keeps 5 versions) and boxcryptor will simply decrypt the restored version with no problem. I was very surprised to find this works.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 6, 2014 at 09:13 AM
Thanks Dan, sounds promising. Just what I wanted to hear :-D
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 6, 2014 at 10:38 AM
Boxcryptor does look very cool. We’ve never had any issues with Soonr.com, mind you, which also does 256-bit encryption (of everything), secure file access over web URLs, full-text searches and has clients for most platforms. But it doesn’t do the Cloud aggregation thing.
Boxcryptor is German, too, which is a definite advantage in terms of serious attitude to privacy. Although Soonr does have European servers (originally a Danish or Norwegian product, I think?).
Soonr is very business-focused, however, which makes it a lot more expensive (starts at ca. 10 EUR a month for one user). On the other hand, Boxcryptor isn’t actually providing any storage, just the encryption, so you’re limited to whatever your storage is in Dropbox, Box, OneDrive or whatever. For your 10 EUR a month, you’re getting one whole terabyte from Soonr. Which is a lot of storage. Oh, and there’s a 10% discount if you pay for a year up front. And you can brand your Soonr website, too, which is quite cool.
For more info on Soonr, see https://eu.soonr.com/2/forms/new/account/payment2/signup.jsp?XGVNWW_1a=OYRM-KWP8-RRKC-RW1S-NMLO&fromSignup=true&gotoTrial=false&planId=&couponCode=&action=SIGNUP
For an example of a branded Soonr website, see https://eu.soonr.com/2/filelink/rnvy-njydeq-wdvozxkq (no password required)
(More info: I’ve posted up the ‘Designing a Personal Knowledgebase’ web page in PDF format, just as an example of a ‘public link’ in Soonr. You’ll see that it’s displayed as a sequence of pages, and can be opened directly in the browser as well as downloaded. That applies to any document stored in Soonr, including e.g. MS Office docs - Soonr has its own built-in viewers).
Just to make clear: I have no affiliation with Soonr whatsoever, but we’ve been using it for several years now and have no complaints whatsoever.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 6, 2014 at 01:57 PM
I’ll give Boxcryptor a try. It allows me to encrypt files and folders selectively - not all files need to be secured.
I’ll keep you informed.
Franz