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Looks like neither Backblaze nor Carbonite support E2E encrypted backups where I do not have to send the password to the cloud, or the private key is in fact generated inside the cloud.

Which means I have to really scramble to find something else that is compatible with computer-illiterate family. Geez, not what I needed.

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Backblaze supports a user-provided passphrase, which is used to encrypt your private key. That provides E2E security. It isn't used by default, though.

https://www.backblaze.com/backup-encryption.html

(Disclosure: I work for Arq Backup)

Arq encrypts the backups before transmitting them, and the encryption key you choose never leaves your computer.

Is there a way to share the encryption key between computers (manually set the key)? See my aside @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15075063 for why

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