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peawee on Aug 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I'm saying goodbye to Dropbox and hello to Spi...

Hey, SpiderOaker here!

While open-sourcing the desktop client isn't going as fast as we'd like, I'd like to point out that practically all current and future projects are open source on our GitHub (https://github.com/SpiderOak/), including our next-gen encryption system Crypton (which will eventually replace the data structures in the desktop client ANYWAY)

cpursley on Aug 28, 2013 [–]

This is cool. Have you guys considered offering encryption as a service and let users pick their own data provider?

peawee on Aug 28, 2013 | [–]

It's technically possible with Crypton. Note that the server-side components are under AGPL or commercial license; it's either pay fair or play fair.

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