Show HN: Safebox - for ur Dropbox

http://safebox.fabulasolutions.com/

by SriniK • 15 years ago

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asharp3• 15 years ago

Interesting. What crypto functions do you use? Openssl?

Also in your "how it works" s/loosing/losing.

Keep in mind that you are breaking dedup, which is likely to make dropbox sad. Probably not sad enough for them to do anything useful though.

SriniK7• 15 years ago

Good question. I am using pycrypto - which is compatible with Openssl.

Thanks. Fixing the typo.

asharp3• 15 years ago

Cool.

How do you create the "folders" that people see? (ui wise?) And hide the encrypted counterparts?

SriniK7• 15 years ago

Safebox allows end-to-end encryption for important files. Would love to get feedback from fellow hackers.

feralchimp• 15 years ago

Disclosure: I have designs on entering this space with my own apps. (thanks for providing me additional motivation to hustle!)

1. Opening up the crypto implementation is a very smart move. Whenever I talk to my wife about building crypto tools, her first question is "Why should people trust you?"

2. Think critically about first user impressions w.r.t. stuff like fonts, the tone of your text, etc. Per the above, you're asking people to trust their data to you. "ur Dropbox" might not give them that safe feeling they're looking for.

3. Another question to be wary of is "why not just use an encrypted disk image." I think you're handling some of that by promoting the ability to share files, but think about answering that question more directly in a FAQ.

Overall, lots of potential here.

SriniK7• 15 years ago

#2 I could definitely change 'ur' to 'your'.

#3 encrypted disk image doesn't allow collaboration. That was one of the main things as I set out to solve.

nphase• 15 years ago

I really hate to be this guy - but why "ur"? Why not "your"?

SriniK7• 15 years ago

just wanted to be hackery along with the font

edit: sorry if it came off as rude. in a meeting and replied in a rush.

deyan2• 15 years ago

For those looking for alternatives, I have been using Boxcryptor and it has been excellent. It includes a few more options (e.g. file name obfuscation).

asharp3• 15 years ago

encfs also works really well with dropbox and it similarly includes many more options.

Truecrypt would also work. Does dropbox do binary diff syncs?

deyan2• 15 years ago

Actually, TrueCrypt doesn't work if you want to do collaboration and real-time sync.

SriniK7• 15 years ago

Few things which led us to avoid file name obfuscation

. File versioning: Dropbox does a great job in versioning, so we wanted retain that flexibility.

. Collaboration for teams: This is one of the most important things that we wanted to address. So keeping file names as is the most simplest solution we could make use of.

Also, we are using keys. So strength of the password is a non issue and makes it much much harder to device a rainbow table attack.

fduran• 15 years ago

Hi, just bought it and downloaded.

After installation it wouldn't synchronize folders, being on Windoze closing and starting again your app did the trick.

The people interested in security solutions would happily pay much more than $1 I would think.

SriniK7• 15 years ago

Thanks for trying it out. Restarting shouldn't be needed. I should fix that. Can you please DM me at srini@fabulasolutions.com

st3fan• 15 years ago

This is something DropBox should implement natively. I would pay premium for that kind of functionality.

crdoconnor• 15 years ago

For those wanting to solve the problem another way, see: http://skeptu.com/secure-alternatives-to-dropbox

highpixels• 15 years ago

I'd love to see an Android client. I use Dropbox a lot with my phone, and really need some sort of encryption solution for it.

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