Tarsnap. Simple, cheap, efficient, honestly secure.
I can't imagine storing personal files and photos somewhere "out there", managed by someone else, in readable form.
Seriously, how do you Dropbox (etc) fans sleep at night?
I can't imagine storing personal files and photos somewhere "out there", managed by someone else, in readable form.
Seriously, how do you Dropbox (etc) fans sleep at night?
I love my users.
It does get to be too painful sometimes.
This would destroy the secure model of tarsnap. If you truly want this then don't use tarsnap use dropbox.
In my (very) limited knowledge - I am able to do retrieve backups on my machine using my key, which I supply to the command line. I was thinking of how it would work in a web based environment. Perhaps I could copy paste my key into a textbox, and I could retrieve my backups from a webpage. This would only last for the session (tarsnap would not store the key).
I know that you can think of a million ways that this can be exploited, but that is MY cross to bear. If I am prepared to do this, because I need immediate access to my backups from another machine - then please let me do this (basically, give me a way to access and create my backups in less than two steps).
I personally do believe that this would be a killer feature.
(Honest questions -- I don't use Dropbox, so don't know.)
Besides, there is much more to cryptography and building a secured system than just using that crypto suit or another (e.g. AES256-HMAC-SHA256 etc.)
I don't particularly have many concerns with the security of Dropbox, but I do keep some personally sensitive information on there, and TrueCrypt is how I sleep at night.