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Encripted cloud service (feddit.it)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi guys, I'm looking for an encripted cloud storage service; I'm trying Filen free plan, but I wish to know which service do you guys recommend.

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[–] sliceable_aspirin 2 points 1 year ago

I would suggest an alternative that allows you to use any of the "Big Ones" like iCloud/OneDrive/GoogleCloud/ Dropbox.

Buy Cryptomator on whatever device(s) need access and set up a single vault on any cloud service you use. This vault will be client-side end to end encrypted which means its just you with knowledge of and managing the encryption keys. Put them in your password manager for a while until you memorize.

Remember, if they aren't YOUR keys, it doesn't really belong exclusively to you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Tresorit is the best of them all.

It has all the features that matter, it's fast, it's E2EE, have automatic photo upload, it's cross-platform ... ticks all the boxes.

It also ticks the high price box, though.

Besides that you have Filen (good but not great, very cheap for a cloud storage with E2EE), Skiff Drive (lacks some features, but it will be my preferred cloud storage as soon as they have automatic photo upload), Proton Drive (lacks a lot of features and it's expensive), MEGA (I have a legacy account, it's 50GB that I use for the non-sensitive data), ...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've heard good things about backblaze which has an s3 compatible API (meaning it supports most tools). Like s3 this probably means it has a similar learning curve

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks, I'll check it out

[–] bruzzard 1 points 1 year ago

Mega is another one but I do remember hearing about it being acquired by a suspect Chinese entity, as well as other latent issues I dont recall. But if I remember correctly files are encrypted on the client-side. Can anyone recommend or provide a ink to some of the issues raised?

If I had to make a decision at the drop of the hat, I'd go Proton's way.

[–] DoomerBoomer 1 points 1 year ago

Btw iCloud is also e2e encrypted and if you set advanced data protection then only you will have the key. Even Apple is unable to access it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Filen serious issue https://github.com/FilenCloudDienste/filen-desktop/issues/182

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

just use rclone, then everything's encrypted