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by antirez 4692 days ago
I'm currently using a truecrypt tiny volume inside Dropbox, works but it is not really ideal. Conflicts resolution and a very long password to remember for the volume, that's the only way I can protect the data when it is synched on the Dropbox servers.
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Exactly. By default Bluepass uses a long password as well to protect the local database. However, you can opt to choose a shorter password, or no password at all. In this case you are still protected by:

* The physical security of your device. Unless someone gets access to your device, you are safe.

* The fact that the sync traffic goes over your local network only.

* Even if someone managed to sniff your local traffic, all synchronization requests are encrypted by each node's unique 2048-bit RSA key. No dictionary attack is possible - you'd have to break RSA.