[Owncloud] Re: GSOC brainstorming.

[Fabio Alessandro Locati]

I would like to ask about the security of this system. How can I be sure
where my data are and who can see them?

2011/1/26 Bugsbane <bugsbane at gmail.com>

> While this is a feature used more when people are running OwnCloud from
> a server at home, than when they upload to a webhost, Hasanat is correct
> that this would be very, very useful. Tonido (who could be considered a
> competitor) works in this way. Because of the NAT hole punching, they
> can make it super easy to get running from home with just a .deb / .rpm,
> create a username / password, and you're ready to go in minutes. Compare
> this to something like Diaspora which doesn't (yet) use this kind of
> technology and thus took me many, many hours of quite in depth,
> technical testing to get working. Average users aren't going to know
> about port forwarding their router (most of which are different, making
> instruction hard) and securing the result.
>
> > I am suggesting to implement NAT hole punching so that server can be
> > accessed if it doesn't have an open ip.
> > This is a common scenario that home servers are behind router and can
> > not be accessed from out side world plus having a dedicated IP at home
> > is a costly business. I don't think there should be a doubt regarding
> > importance of this feature.
> >
> > How can this be implemented:
> > We basically
> > 1. need a tracker server
> > 2. a client side software (running at both owncloud server and client
> machines)
> >
> > But if everyone needs to download a software to access his/her files,
> > the whole point of accessing though browser (the current state) is
> > lost.
> >
> > So we can mold it and make it work like this:
> > We will need to host a service at our end which basically mirrors your
> > server, e.g. by accessing  http://my-home-server@owncloud-tracker.org,
>  my
> > home server opens in browser. Multiple servers can be served from
> > single tracker server. The point to notice is that tracker stills has
> > no idea about my personal files as it can't read them. So one can
> > safely use someone else's tracker server. I doubt if own-cloud will
> > have enough resources to host trackers for others.
> >
> > (If you guys let me do this in this year's SOC, i'll set a tracker
> > server for you guys on amazon for one year :P )
> >
> > I am open to criticism and suggestions.
> >
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