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Boxcryptor
Company blog · boxcryptor.com/en/blog · on HN as robfreudenreichsecurityprogramming
Boxcryptor is the company blog at boxcryptor.com, writing about security and programming. Since 2011, 40 different Hacker News readers have linked it 52 times, most often “Boxcryptor: Encryption software to secure cloud files”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (29) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Boxcryptor is a client-side encryption tool that layers over Dropbox and other cloud storage. HN readers mention it as an alternative to TrueCrypt and EncFS, and link its product and blog pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 29 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Boxcryptor: Encryption software to secure cloud files8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2012-07-19
- Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-side encryption6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-11-29
- BoxCryptor: Easy On-the-fly Dropbox Encryption4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-02-22
- /en/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2018-03-01
- /en/classic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-03-04
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-20
- /en/blog/post/iphone-backup-icloud-encryption/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-08
- /en/boxcryptor-classic2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-06-10
What Hacker News says?
you may want to take at look at: https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/
Comment linking /en/
on “Show HN: We built an end-to-end encrypted alternative to Google Photos”Submitted Independent Audit: Insights into the Source Code of Boxcryptor as a story · 15 points
HN discussion>Replacing iCloud storage with a big hard drive is a bit like replacing a car with a motorcycle. What you lose in convenience, you gain in privacy, since iCloud backups are not e2e encrypted. https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/blog/post/iphone-backup-icloud...
Comment linking /en/blog/post/iphone-backup-icloud-encryption/
on “Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start”Submitted Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-side encryption as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI think BoxCryptor is better than TrueCrypt for this purpose. BoxCryptor encrypts each file separately so the sync works as expected. https://www.boxcryptor.com/
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on “BitTorrent’s Secure Dropbox Alternative Goes Public”Submitted A Close Look at Ransomware at the Example of Vipasana – Part II as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAlso claims to work on Linux: http://www.boxcryptor.com/download/#platform_linux_dl
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on “Introducing Google Drive... yes, really”Submitted Building an App with WebCrypto in 2016 – Dos and Don’ts from the Front as a story · 4 points
HN discussionBoxCryptor: http://www.boxcryptor.com/ Provides a pain-free encrypted layer on top of free cloud storage services like DropBox. BoxCryptor encrypts individual files, then stores the encrypted files in DropBox. If your DropBox account is compromised the adversary will only get useless encrypted files. Uses EncFS. Has clients for Windows and Mac. The Android and iOS clients are amazing. To me, the most surprising thin…
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on “Introducing Google Drive... yes, really”Submitted Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor as a story · 3 points
HN discussionAnyone have experience with Boxcryptor? Haven't tried it since a few years ago ( https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/ )
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on “My one-liner Linux Dropbox client”Submitted BoxCryptor: Easy On-the-fly Dropbox Encryption as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis works, and works well. I had a little trouble getting it to run on one of my older Mac OSX machines, but I'm pretty sure that was because I had the remains of a previous installation of MacFUSE messing things up - There's also a MacOSX/iOS/Android/Windows commercial "wrapper" around EncFS which is fully compatible with the compiled-from-source versions of EncFS I've got running on Mac OSX and Linux (ARM and x86…
Comment linking /boxcryptor-classic
on “Dropbox opening my docs?”Submitted Dropbox is acquiring Boxcryptor IP technology as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can use Boxcryptor [0] on top of Dropbox to encrypt everything client side. That's much simpler than PGP. Yes I agree on the collaboration. I can see how this is more of a security/privacy minded replacement for Google Docs rather than a Word/Excel replacement. [0]: https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/
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on “Show HN: Graphite – A decentralized and encrypted Google Docs alternative”Submitted Boxcryptor Sold to Dropbox as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBoxCryptor[1] has been my choice. I've been now using it on daily basis together with Dropbox and I'm satisfied. Boxcryptor works on the client side and stores the encrypted files on Dropbox folder as ordinary files. It is also possible to encrypt filenames. Boxcryptor comes from Germany. The only drawback I have encountered is that Dropbox limits the path names to 255 characters. With encrypted file/folder names th…
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on “Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage”Submitted We Built the Boxcryptor for Microsoft Teams Integration as a story · 2 points
HN discussionHere you go: https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/boxcryptor-classic It's an offline application that runs on your computer that is transparent to your actions. You just use the drive BC mounts instead of where Dropbox tells you to use, the rest automatic.
Comment linking /en/boxcryptor-classic
on “Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage”Submitted Boxcryptor: Encryption software to secure cloud files as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI use Dropbox with Boxcryptor ( https://www.boxcryptor.com/ ). It creates an encrypted drive/folder using a key of your own choosing.
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on “Wuala: Secure Cloud Storage”Submitted A Close Look at Ransomware by the Example of Vipasana (Part I) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe other day I found Boxcryptor for Teams[1] which seemed like a useful tool, if the company can be convinced to use it. At least it feels like an option for a privacy concerned organisation, which somehow ended up in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. [1] https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/microsoft-teams/
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on “I looked at all the ways Microsoft Teams tracks users”Submitted Boxcryptor – Encryption for cloud storage without container files as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYou can try using http://www.boxcryptor.com/ , up to 2gb free, it encrypts separate files and not entire volume.
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on “Google Drive vs. Dropbox Terms of Service”Submitted Introducing the Boxcryptor for Android Encryption Interface as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis looks cool, but of course you can also use encfs directly with Dropbox or, if you prefer a graphical interface, Boxcryptor[1] have a fork of encfs specifically for cloud storage along with some platform-specific apps. [1] https://www.boxcryptor.com
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on “Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone”Submitted Time to drop TrueCrypt (at least for Dropbox) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBoxcryptor[1] started out as an EncFS[2] implementation. At the time, EncFS was the only real good solution for file-based encryption. Solutions like TrueCrypt are disk-based, which means for cloud syncing solutions like Dropbox, one file -- the entire disk volume -- gets synced, and every time a file changes, the entire disk gets synced again. EncFS encrypts individual files, which works great for file-based syncin…
Comment linking /en/blog/post/6-years-of-boxcryptor-look-behind-the-scenes/
on “How I encrypt my data in the cloud”Submitted Encryption for Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft SkyDrive as a story · 2 points
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