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It’s a service I’ve been using for a while, and I think it would be a great fit for privacy-conscious users. Encryption and decryption are performed manually by the user, using their own decryption key.
Why I think this tool should be added
Its simple and easy to use, they focus on security and privacy. Check out their Secure Solo Cipher Encryption (SSCE) aka E2EE+
Also, they support so many upload tools:
• File Upload
• Folder Upload
• URL Remote Upload
• FTP/FTPS
• WebDAV
• FileDrop
• Mobile App
• FileLuSync
• Upload via Email
• Chrome Extension
• Upload via API
• Terminal CLI
To be honest, not every provider that claims to offer E2EE or zero-knowledge encryption actually implements it properly. For example, I have 10 TB of video files uploaded to a provider that claimed E2EE. When I log in, all the files are already decrypted and ready for me to play and watch. If they were truly encrypted, how could they decrypt 10 TB so quickly?
With FileLu, I manually encrypt and decrypt my files using my own key. It does take time to encrypt and decrypt large files, but it’s very fast for smaller files like photos and documents. This gives me confidence that my data is secure. It’s not automatic E2EE, but I like having full control over the process.
Now you are just spreading a bunch of nonsense and aren’t worth my time. Your phone is fully encrypted, and yet you can instantly access everything once you provide the decryption key. Logging into an E2EE service is no different.
If anything we cannot know if FileLu has a decent E2EE implementation because they are not open source.
My bad if anything I said that doesn’t make sense to you. I agree with you that FileLu is not open source.
But device encryption and file encryption are different. On a phone, the decryption happens locally after you unlock it, allowing instant access to the device as a whole. In cloud storage, however, data is encrypted before uploading and decrypted on the server when you access it. If 10 TB of data is instantly accessible, it could mean the data isn’t properly encrypted or stored securely. The decryption process in cloud storage should take time, especially for large files, to ensure it’s properly encrypted.
This is false, decryption also happens locally on the device, otherwise it would by definition not be E2EE. A single 10TB file would not be accessible instantly, but if you have 10TB worth of files then they are all encrypted individually and so they can be decrypted with no noticeable delay as they are accessed.