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Review my site: CloudSafe.com
4 points by cloudsafe 5786 days ago
We just launched our secure online storage project: http://www.cloudsafe.com

It´s a place to store any critical data you would like to be securely encrypted in the cloud. Just setup a virtual safe and use the web frontend or WebDAV to upload your files. Then you can give selective access to any other user. Or you could use and distribute access codes for the safes.

From a technical perspective: We focused to implement a secure asmyetric cryptographic archtitecture - all content is encrypted via AES-256 and user access administration is done via public/private key encryption. So basically we tried to implement some of the key security elements of GPG/PGP within a cloud service.

The free account comes with three safes and 1GB of free space. Now we would love to get some user feedback: Just use our contact form on the site or drop us a quick note at support@cloudsafe.com.

3 comments

I went to it and it redirected me to almost a blank page telling me that I have to enable javascript. Okay - fine. <click close button>

I don't know you and I don't know your site. I'm not enabling javascript just to see if I want to see if I want to learn more.

Hi Scott, unfortunately we do use Wicket (from apache.org) in conjunction with javascript for some of the GUI. So basically it is a requirement that we decided on quite early while developing. We will make sure the "no javascript"is more descriptive. Thanks for trying.
I tried and it looks good. But what is the main difference between other similar storage sites? Asking just because how it's going to be competitive and make money.
All data is securely encrypted. And we offer data sharing by public/private key encryption. There is no online storage offering a higher security standard so far. If you need convenience, use Dropbox. If you need security, use CloudSafe.

Money will be made by offering extra storage and some company features. But you will always be able to use the free account. So any person you want to share data with will be able to access it without paying a cent.

Is the service located in the US?
No, we are located in Hamburg, Germany. But we got our TRUSTe approval for the US market today (logo to follow) - so our data privacy policy should meet US standards.