Ubuntu One needs cloud encryption like LastPass does it

Sam Smith smickson at hotmail.com
Fri Mar 23 18:34:07 UTC 2012


Are you familiar with LastPass? 

Everything you said, you can do with LastPass: "make it more convenient, access your files
> from anywhere (including the website), stream your own music, share
> your files"

Using secure encryption that occurs on the computer before it leaves for the cloud does not prevent any of the things you seem to think it does.



> From: beuno at ubuntu.com
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:32:09 -0300
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu One needs cloud encryption like LastPass does it
> To: jtodd929 at hotmail.com
> CC: ubuntu-devel-discuss at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Jason Todd <jtodd929 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I wanted to leave a note expressing my hopes that if Ubuntu One ever gets
> > encryption capabilities, that the encryption be implemented in the same way
> > that LASTPASS does it (http://lastpass.com). Which is that the data is all
> > encrypted on the user's machine before it goes into the cloud, and the user
> > is the only who has the key to decrypt the data. This kind of encryption
> > setup would be safe & secure and would lead me to trust the Ubuntu One cloud
> > services.
> 
> ...but then you wouldn't be able to interact with your data beyond
> your own computers.
> Ubuntu One's focus is to make it more convenient, access your files
> from anywhere (including the website), stream your own music, share
> your files, and well, more to come in that direction.
> You can either have "very secure" or "convenient", and there's
> services catering to both. We believe that if you really want to keep
> your data safe, than you can encrypt it yourself, so it'll get
> uploaded encrypted (at the expense of it being inconvenient to decrypt
> to use it). DejaDup does this for you by default in Ubuntu, and backs
> up, safely and securely to Ubuntu One.
> As for the general consumer, they are attracted towards cloud services
> for the convenience (this is not an opinion, this is research).
> Both things are real uses cases, but in many cases mutually exclusive.
> 
> -- 
> Martin
> 
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