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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.
Dear Andrea,
I see two different overviews for available plans i.e. https://www.dropbox.com/plans and https://www.dropbox.com/business/plans-comparison I don't see any plan by the name "Advanced" as mentioned in your message. Furthermore the overviews or plan comparisons were obviously not yet updated as no plan shows the E2E encryption yet.
So if I understood the content at the provided links correctly it's only specific (team) folders that have end-to-end encryption. What does team folder mean? Is it somehow related to Microsoft Teams or is it a folder that can be accessed by several users (if I want that)?
If I want all my files and directories getting encrypted in the Dropbox Cloud I would need to create a folder structure in that encrypted (team) folder?
Thanks for your efforts.
This has been a long and active thread. I also have no ill feelings about Andrea selling Boxcryptor to Dropbox; it was a great product and you should deserve to benefit. But I happily paid $65/year to BC for six years preceding that and it was the best solution I could find for TNO encryption. Iâm glad there has been movement on the product side but been the Teams restriction which I donât understand and the Advanced product level which I donât see, Iâm still feeling confused. I hope we can clarify what is going on and hopefully the service is available again for just regular subscribers Family plan users like me.
