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As most will know, dropbox has purchased boxcryptor.
At this point my question is, what will happen to all those files that have been encrypted with boxcryptor ? Should they all be decrypted and wait for communication on how the transaction will be handled by Dropbox ?
Boxcryptor was used to encrypt files using other cloud services, will this change ?
Thank you very much
Riccardo
Hi Eethan,
I appreciate your feedback! End-to-end encryption will be offered to our business customers, but we did not yet finalize any pricing/bundling/add-on decisions.
I will make sure to share your feedback internally, thank you so much.
As a paying Dropbox Plus user, I hope there can be a user tier short of "Business" (now $45/month for the minimum of three users), that includes Boxcryptor. Perhaps incorporate Boxcryptor in what is now "Professional?"
Thanks for your response, apfund.
While it is good news to hear that it is at least being discussed, most of us here are losing our encryption service before any alternative is being offered, leaving us scrambling for another solution. Mine ends in May, and Dropbox unfortunately hasn't provided a solution to the problem they ultimately created. I do hope to keep using Dropbox, but I need this encryption-type, and this has really inconvenienced myself and a lot of users. I would have hoped this matter would be treated with a little more urgency.
I completely understand your frustration and the inconvenience this has caused for you and other users.
While I don't have an immediate solution to offer, I'll pass on your feedback to my team. But I can assure you, that they are aware of the urgency and are already working on this topic. Thank you!
I'm getting tired of these lame excuses. I'm going to move to a zero-knowledge platform.
Well, I asked the BC team last year if they were going to offer something new and similar after Boxcryptor was discontinued. I even asked if it was possible to get the rights to create a clone. All I got were automated messages. We may never know what made BC adapt the poor communication behavior of Dropbox and why they ruined their "baby" after so many years. Will we ever know what motivated BC to leave all the customers out in the cold instead of leaving everything as it was and just coming up with the new product and strategy when it was ready and fully functional? Normally Germans don't do things like that. Maybe Andrea can finally give us some reasons. Anyway, I'm now happily working with Filen, which is also a German startup and reminds me of how it all started with BC more than a decade ago. It replaced my DB and BC and provides zero knowledge encryption. No more two applications needed. As usual, every disaster leads to something new and better in the end...
We have a subscription to Boxcrypter. We understand that Boxcrypter will be ADDED by Dropbox to Business. What about paid NON-Business users? Once our subscription to Boxcrypter comes to an end, We NEED encryption that is available on our MACs, iPads and IPhones.
The current status is, that the first version of our native end-to-end encryption implementation will be offered to our business customers.
I will certainly share your comments and suggestions with our team, and we appreciate your feedback.
Additionally, I understand the importance of clear communication and messaging, and I will take this feedback into consideration as well, as we continue to refine our approach. Thank you again for your valuable input.
@apfund Respectfully, this not a status report as it lacks 1) Progress, 2) Features, and most importantly 3) the Delivery Date. Users have no clue what to do which fuels confusion or potential anger which is exceedingly damaging to the Dropbox Brand and forever alienates brand ambassadors.
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