[Owncloud] Encrypt.

[Daniel Holm]

Hi,

That is the exact way that I was thinking of doing it, initially. Then 
improve it step by step.

I'd very much like to work on this together.
I could perhaps come up with some ideas. I was planing of starting this 
after June 4th, when I have my last exam for the semester.

Creating a solution that works even with shared files would probably 
take some fundamental changes to permissions (allow shared users to 
encrypt certain dirs) and file storage (save a copy or seperate the 
shared files). Or actually copy the shared files to the other users 
directory. But that would result in less space left for the users.

Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
   Daniel Holm
   IT Consultant
   Web Developer
   Student
   Tel: +46 76-1650946
   admin at danielholm.se
   http://www.danielholm.se


2012-05-20 16:35, Frank Karlitschek skrev:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> the current encryption app is a very basic implementation of encryption using blowfish.
> The files are encrypted with a personal key thats encrypted with the password of the user.
>
> Which means that it is relatively secure but also has drawbacks. A problem is that the data is lost if you forget your password. There is no way, beside a brute force attack to get your data back. Another drawback is that this collides with sharing obviously.
>
> There are plans to improve this system in the next ownCloud iteration. Could you send your ideas/plans for this? Perhaps we could iterate together and improve it.
>
>
> Frank
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> On 19.05.2012, at 13:14, Daniel Holm<admin at danielholm.se>  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I just upgraded to 4 RC2 and I found the application for server side encryption. This might be something that I myself wanted to write, and I'd like to know more about it: how does it work; what kind of encryption is used; documentation; how can I help?
>>
>> -- 
>> Vänlig hälsning / Yours sincerely,
>>   Daniel Holm
>>   IT Consultant
>>   Web Developer
>>   Student
>>   Tel: +46 76-1650946
>>   admin at danielholm.se
>>   http://www.danielholm.se
>>
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