Protect Your Dropbox Files with Easy, Secure Encryption
Dropbox has been in the news lately, and not always in a good way. For example, a security expert recently unearthed a critical security flaw that could expose all of your online files.
If you're worried about Dropbox's "insecure by design" architecture, or you just have concerns about the general principal of cloud storage, then you might be interested in this tool which can automatically encrypt your files as they're copied to Dropbox, rendering them inaccessible to anyone but you. Even better, the encryption and decryption steps are automatic, so you don't have to worry about managing your files. You pretty much just use Dropbox the way you always do.
Start by getting SecretSync, a Dropbox add-on that encrypts your files before uploading them to Dropbox. The program is currently in beta, free, and works quite well.
Here's how it works: SecretSync creates a new folder on your PC. Anything you copy to this folder is encrypted and then copied to Dropbox. The version of your file on Dropbox is fully encrypted with 256-bit AES encryption, so even if someone got access to your Dropbox account, they'd find your files to be worthless. If you install SecretSync on your other PCs, then the local versions of your Dropbox filers will be automatically unencrypted everywhere you need access to them.
SecretSync is a smart and effective solution to worries about Dropbox security, and, best of all, it doesn't add any extra steps between you and your files.
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