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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's avatar
    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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Mark
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Welcome to the forum!

You seem to have missed the fact that Dropbox is a syncing tool. It is designed to have EVERYTHING on your local machine as well as in the cloud and on any linked devices for that exact reason.

So, everything you put in Dropbox is in a folder on your machine called 'Dropbox' which is accessible to anybody using your device and machine.

So, you need to secure the user account on the computer as you would have to do for the data anyway on your device.
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Mades
Explorer | Level 3
7 years ago

Yes, This has answered my question. 

 

Any other protection that I may need I have to do myself like implementing Boxcryptor is one solution.

 

I am happy the way things turned out.

 

Thanks a lot to all those who participated.

 

I can recommend this forum.

Michael

  • Jay's avatar
    Jay
    Icon for Dropbox Staff rankDropbox Staff
    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.
    • Mades's avatar
      Mades
      Explorer | Level 3
      7 years ago

      Perfectly said AgentJay, it couldn't have said better,

      Take care and many thanks, 

      Michel

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