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Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor. What will happen to all those files that have been encrypted?
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As most will know, dropbox has purchased boxcryptor. At this point my question is, what will happen to all those files that have been encrypted with boxcryptor ? Should they all be decrypted an...
riccardo1981 wrote:
At this point my question is, what will happen to all those files that have been encrypted with boxcryptor ?
Since this is such a new development, such answers are likely not available yet, beyond what has been stated by the Boxcryptor founders (emphasis mine).
What does this mean for our users and customers?
First of all: All our existing users and customers will remain with the German Secomba GmbH with the same shareholders as during the past 10 years. No contracts, customer data or keys will migrate to Dropbox, all data will remain in our German data centers.
While weâve sold several key technology assets to Dropbox, we will continue to service our existing users and customers pursuant to the terms of their existing contracts. However, as of today, we will not allow the creation of new accounts or purchases of any new licenses.
If youâre an existing customer, you can keep using Boxcryptor as you do today, and weâll be in touch with more details as we join forces with Dropbox. If youâre new here and would like to stay up to date on Dropboxâs progress, join the Dropbox mailing list.
You will also find the most important FAQs regarding the next steps below.
Sync is a better solution than Apple or MSFT. Sync uses full encryption natively and does not store the keys themselves. They don't have the ability to encrypt the file names, but they have no access to your files or data. For the past several months, I've been migrating nearly 60TB from Dropbox to Sync, and other than the sheer magnitude of the volume, it's gone without any problems. Sync is much less expensive for a business account as well, with a minimum of only 2 users and it's US$200 per user per year for unlimited storage.
The only reason why I moved my 800GB media data to OneDrive instead to Sync, was the fact, that it is not supported by cloud transfer services such as MultCloud or RiceDrive. For my media data I don't need zero-knowledge encryption. For sensitive data I now use Filen which offers zero-knowledge encryption as a standard.
