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Support encryption

Open ariary opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Context

If I upload a file using youbit everyone with knowledge of youbit will be able to retrieve the file content, this is a privacy concern.

2 current solutions:

  • Upload private videos
  • Encrypt file locally before uploading it

That seems fine!

Proposition

But as youbit aims to be an all-in-one solution (compared to others similar tools), maybe it could be a good idea to go further to directly embed file encryption within it during "uploading process" (and thus file decryption for the reverse process)

ariary avatar Jul 06 '22 10:07 ariary

In early development, YouBit actually had this. During one of the many re-writes I omitted the feature to focus on other challenges within the project.

It should be pretty easy to reintroduce though. Might do this someday.

flonle avatar Jul 06 '22 11:07 flonle

you can also encrypt your files using openssl like described in here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/16056298 and then upload them

Ensber avatar Jul 06 '22 12:07 Ensber