![]() One of Dropbox’s key selling points is its speed, partly enabled by its use of block-level copying to sync files between devices and the cloud. However, will Boxcryptor really add zero-knowledge encryption to Dropbox? When and how will it be implemented, and what does this mean for current Dropbox and Boxcryptor customers? This article shares everything we know so far.ĭropbox is both a desktop app (pictured above on Windows) and a website. It’ll address Dropbox security issues while putting users’ minds at ease. Dropbox says it’s acquiring assets from Boxcryptor that will finally let it provide true “zero-knowledge” encryption (though only for business users) that is, nobody but the user has all the keys needed to decrypt their data, rendering Dropbox secure.Īcquiring Boxcryptor is a solid move on paper. The Boxcryptor acquisition is meant to remove that possibility. There’s no evidence that it did so, but the potential was there. However, until recently, that encryption only applied to third parties - Dropbox held the necessary keys to view files stored on customer drives.
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