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they encrypt all data and i dont think it would be wise of them analyzing their clients data for dupes...if somebody would get to know that their business would be gone.


ZFS supports encryption with deduplication, and Dropbox does dedupe accross customers (and why not? It's not a human digging through things).

http://blogs.sun.com/darren/entry/compress_encrypt_checksum_... - ZFS link


When different customers use different key to encrypt the data, even if the source is the same, the outcome is different. So it is not feasible to do de-duplication across different customers' data, unless all of them use the same key.




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