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Ubuntu to store copies of all users' address booksUbuntu to store copies of all users' address booksPosted Oct 14, 2009 18:19 UTC (Wed) by BeS (subscriber, #43108)In reply to: Ubuntu to store copies of all users' address books by raraavis Parent article: Ubuntu to store copies of all users' address books
>I'm always interested in hearing feedback about how to make the design better, and I'm very passionate about designing cloud services that provides much more user autonomy than the current common practice, while also providing a lot of user convenience that makes so many cloud services appealing. One possibility would be to encrypt the data locally and store them encrypted in the cloud. This would make sure that only the user can read the data. Of course this would add some extra work for the user: Distribute the key on all clients and take care of the key. But I think it would be good to have this possibility at least as an option for people who want real privacy while using the cloud.
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Ubuntu to store copies of all users' address books Posted Oct 14, 2009 19:14 UTC (Wed) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
Tahoe-LAFS (which also comes with Karmic) automatically encrypts all data stored in it. It has a
novel approach to ease the pain of key-management, which is the critical stumbling block for such ideas. http://allmydata.org
It's not perfect, but I think it is better than any current alternative.
Regards,
Zooko
Yes, encryption option would solve all problems Posted Oct 14, 2009 22:04 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] I'm also interested to hear if this has been discussed.
Ubuntu to store copies of all users' address books Posted Oct 15, 2009 9:51 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
One of the planned offerings is mobile synchronisation (via the SyncML found in most handsets capable of synchronisation). I'm not sure how client side encryption would work with that.
But all the client code is free software, so if you didn't care about the mobile sync feature you could implement something like this.
Ubuntu to store copies of all users' address books Posted Oct 15, 2009 15:57 UTC (Thu) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link]
Hm, actually Tahoe-LAFS might fit into that use case pretty well... But again I'm pushing my own
idea here when this thread is about Canonical's UbuntuOne. If you are interested in exploring privacy-compatible storage and sync and then maybe join the tahoe-dev mailing list. :-)
Regards,
Zooko
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