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Mades
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Encryption at the user end?

Hi, I am just new in this forum, I found it for the first time today, the right time. I have been using Dropbox since its beginning. However in this morning my internet dropped for more than 12 hou...
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    Jay
    7 years ago
    As the others have said above, your files on the Dropbox servers are encrypted.
     
    However the files on your local machine are not, like with any other folder on your computer, so a third party encryption software would be needed if you don’t want anyone to access or view your files there.
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Mades
Explorer | Level 3

Thank you Mark,

So, would you recommend Boxcryptor as an extra security to Dropbox?

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Mark
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7 years ago
Personally I cannot comment on it as I dont use it.

I know lots do.

For me I just encrypt my whole hard drive (Mac) and then have strong passwords on the user accounts so nobody else can access it.

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