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Zero Knowledge Encryption
I find that many Cloud services offer encryption during transfer to the service and encryption at the destination. Dropbox does this too. Unfortunately, the keys used at the destination are available to Dropbox. What would make Dropbox unique is if it would offer Zero Knowledge encryption at the client. That way all files are encrypted at the client with the customer retaining the keys. Why is this important? There can be bugs during transfer even if encryption is used (remember the famous OOPS with caches on internet servers offering up unencrypted data?). Also, the government can force Dropbox to deliver user data (or it may be compromised by hackers).
Dropbox with Zero Knowledge Encryption would be a market leading solution that would drive a great preference over OneDrive, Google Drive and others. It would be the only way I would be comfortable putting my files on the cloud.
I wanted to share a quick update with you:
We have launched our end-to-end encryption in April. More details can be found here and here.
High level overview:
You can now add end-to-end encryption to team folders. The functionality is available for our Advanced, Business Plus and Enterprise customers at no additional costs.
If there are any questions, please let me know!
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I'm assuming that Dropbox will take FULL responsibility should ANYTHING happen with my data seeing as they chose to not make this available as a standard feature across the board.
In this day and age with how prolific data breaches are I find Dropbox's attitude to be short-sighted in the least. I have been a Dropbox customer for years and currently have a family plan. I'm not fond of the idea that my family photos, including those sync'd from other family members, can be exposed and used to generate deepfakes just because Dropbox doesn't think that my privacy and safety isn't important.
I have no interest in a business account that has a minimum of 3 users at $900/year... I am a single user. Why can't you add this as an add-on to the non-business accounts? I would gladly pay extra for this feature and so would many others.
apfund"The functionality is available for our Advanced, Business Plus and Enterprise customers at no additional costs."
...and it's not available at any cost on other plans.
Until the functionality becomes available on more reasonably priced plans, it may as well not even exist for the vast majority of users.âšī¸
I just run through the rclone crypt layer before I mount my cloud providers.
I still think it's horrible, privacy is locked behind a paywall.
apfundDropbox Product Manager
I wanted to share a quick update with you:
We have launched our end-to-end encryption in April. More details can be found here and here.
High level overview:
You can now add end-to-end encryption to team folders. The functionality is available for our Advanced, Business Plus and Enterprise customers at no additional costs.
If there are any questions, please let me know!You can add me to the "Down vote" for not having this option. They bought out boxcryptor, which many of us used to add the extra layer of encryption, while still being able to use the history and version features within dropbox. I've been a paid subscriber for years, but without this feature, it's time to move on.
Cryptomator and Veracrypt. I'm using Cryptomator, but it's not free on Android and Apple device.
Anyway, I'm free Dropbox user right now, I don't have any plan to back to be paid customer anymore.
It looks like Dropbox is bringing end-to-end encryption soon to business users but not to non-business users (article link below). Do you or anyone else know of good alternate solutions for end-to-end file system encryption?
https://www.techradar.com/news/dropbox-is-bringing-end-to-end-encryption-for-business-users
The number of votes is irrelevant. Companies like Dropbox do not implement features based on user suggestions. They do so via bean counting.
Dropbox has over 15 million users that pay a subscription fee and nearly $2 BILLION in revenue. That subscription payment is a "vote" for the policy of "whatever you do is fine by me."
They would need to lose around 1 million subscriptions explicitly due to lack of zero-knowledge encryption before they even considered implementing the idea.
Synopsis: If you are paying a fee now, you have already voted that everything is absolutely great and in no need of change.
"Status: Needs more votes" ???
I thought 166 votes is a LOT comparing to the number of people who are active in this section of the forum?
How many votes are required?
