On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:44 PM, Cornelius Schumacher <schumac...@kde.org> wrote: > On Friday 25 October 2013 Klaas Freitag wrote: >> On 25.10.2013 18:34, Cornelius Schumacher wrote: >> > >> > To me client-side encryption is the one big missing feature in ownCloud. >> > This would enable hosting it on an server you don't control, and still >> > have full ownership and control of your data. >> >> Well, you own the data on the server, but its useless there for you. > > It's only useless for any server-side processing, and that's the whole point. > >> So >> what is the use case of the entire ownCloud (filemanagement) then? Just >> a hub to synchronize from one device to the other? > > Yes, accessing the data from multiple clients. And that could well be web > clients as well. But the processing would be on the client, and not on the > server. Could be done via the client overlay or later on with a browserplugin, perhaps even a browser on a usb stick with your private key so you can launch it from a usb, when you need it and semitrust the computer...
> > Sharing with others becomes tricky, because it would mean some kind of > exchange of keys, but even that might be a solvable problem. True, but public keys of other users could be managed by the server and used for encrypting the shared file and reuploaded for the other user. A bit more complicated and bandwidth/resource intensive, but as you said solvable. > >> Actually yes, that's a feature. But I think we were hoping to make more >> out of ownCloud. And that made the idea slipping further down the >> priority list I think. > > More control, more privacy, more security, that's what I personally expect > from ownCloud. For just writing fancy web applications there are many other > projects which do a good job. Not saying that it's a bad thing to do it ;-) \o/ > >> > Is it hard to implement such a feature? Hell yes. But that's part of the >> > fun and the value. >> >> Does that mean you're in? Great! :-D > > That's a trick question, right? Let me say for now I'm in as a supporter of > the idea ;-) > > -- > Cornelius Schumacher <schumac...@kde.org> > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > Owncloud@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list Owncloud@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud