Dropbox acquires Boxcryptor. What will happen to all those files that have been encrypted?

As Dropbox has acquired Boxcryptor (https://blog.dropbox.com/topics/company/dropbox-to-acquire-boxcryptor-assets-bring-end-to-end-encryption-to-business-users) with its full end-to-end encryption, I would like to know how this solution will be offered to the Dropbox users.
I have been a Boxcryptor user for more than ten years and am using Boxcryptor end-to-end encryption "on top" of my Dropbox files and folders.
How will Dropbox offer the acquired Boxcryptor technology and real end-to-end encryption to its users?

As a Boxcryptor user for 6 years I'm confused about the strategy here as well.  Why do we need to decrypt all our files first and then wait for Dropbox to re-integrate the capability?  It would have been great if we could have kept all our files just as they were, and have the encryption service just transfer seamlessly into the Dropbox ecosystem.  As it stands now, we are saying goodbye permanently to Boxcryptor and completely disengaging from it, and then hoping that at some day in the future a similar kind of service comes back from within Dropbox.  I will miss Boxcryptor very much.

Good morning,

When will we be able to encrypt data in Dropbox with Boxcryptor?

Hi marco1979, happy Friday! 

You can see all the available info that we have in this article and on Boxycryptor's end right here.

I hope that clarifies. 

My question is it possible to encrypt data directly in Dropbox with Boxcryptor. So currently there is still no certain date..

What Dropbox is really saying by reposting a 4-month-old statement is that the leading cloud provider does not currently offer zero-knowledge encryption and that they don't know when it will happen. They acquired Boxcryptor, and for some unknown reason managed to shut down the official Boxcryptor service immediately, instead of leaving everything as it was until they successfully implemented Boxcryptor into Dropbox.

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.  

Martin R.19 That's because - like virtually everything that's done by Dropbox - it's act first, think later.  They spend more time thinking up idiotic ideas that make them "newsworthy" or (in their own minds alone) "cool" and then they do it.  The product management team at Dropbox must be staffed by either high school dropouts or those who went to universities that managed to convince them that they're smarter than the rest of us.  What I know with certainty is that none of them have ever worked in a real business that had to manage real business data.  

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.

Martin and others, I absolutely share these concerns and wanted to add my voice.  As a very loyal Dropbox and Boxcryptor user from nearly the very beginning of both companies, the way they handled this is disappointing.  I am a big fan of zero-knowledge cloud data for my personal financial and medical data not only to protect me, but to protect Dropbox as well.  I've read most of what both companies have posted these last few months and have really felt the communication was a 2 out of 5 (BTW - if Dropbox is reading this, my wife says "shame on you").  At the least, the companies should have done a better job explaining what was going on.  If you're not going to give us a usage path through the transition, tell us.  Better yet, you should have planned a path for us to take.  As I think of it, both companies should acknowledge the millions of customers that value zero-knowledge encryption and understand it is USERS LIKE US that are the very reason why you acquired the IP from Boxcryptor in the first place.  And if it's users like us, then find a way to not abandon us in the transition with little to no method for maintaining our zero-knowledge encrypted files in the cloud.   This is such a disappointment.  ...as I sit here on a Saturday morning researching zero-encryption alternatives (competitors) to Boxcryptor/Dropbox for me, my family, and my business (I run a SaaS business of my own, so I'm not foreign to these concepts personally or professionally).   

In the meantime, I do want to correct some of the previous posts.  Paying Boxcryptor customers CAN still access, save, and store files without decrypting buy downloading your personal encryption key from Boxcryptor (even now after your account is locked): 

1.  Log into Boxcryptor and go to advanced: https://www.boxcryptor.com/app/account/index/#advanced 
2. Click Export Keys and save the encryption file locally on your computer.
3. Open Boxcryptor on your local computer, click the three dots, and select Local Account
4. You'll be prompted for the Export Key you just downloaded.  Load it up, enter your BC password and you will be able to access your Boxcryptor files from within Dropbox on your local computer once the key is loaded.  You may have to reset the link between Boxcryptor and Dropbox in the Boxcryptor settings.  

Note that I don't think it is possible to access your Boxcryptor files on iOS or Android using this method.  If someone knows how to do this, please let me know.

Dropbox, how about a plan or timeline when you might bring back zero-knowledge for your joint customers before you lose a million more of us?