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by tptacek 4060 days ago
Right, so you encrypt locally, upload to Dropbox, pass the link to your friend, and they decrypt locally. Still not seeing why you'd opt to trust this doohickey.
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I always found DropBox a pain, you have to email them the link, which is a bit more effort than saying going to a short URL and typing in a password. So I could see this being somewhat useful :)
If you've invented the most convenient file transfer tool on the whole Internet, you've buried the lede here; forget about the encryption, and get your Dropbox-competitor funded.

If you haven't, well, people should use that other service instead of this one.

Either way: I'm still totally unclear on why anyone would allow a server to encrypt files for them. I don't even reach the question of whether it's possible to do it securely, because it seems like such a weird thing to want.