Three approaches to free encrypted online storage
Posted on Jul 12, 2009 under HDD tools |Download:
One of the knocks against Google’s online applications is that your personal data is stored unencrypted on the company’s servers. For the many users of Google apps who are unconcerned about somebody snooping around their files, this won’t matter. But those servers are no place to store sensitive personal or business information.
You can store your financial and other confidential information online for free by using a service such as Mozy or IDrive that encrypts the data on their servers, usually in a way that prevents the service’s own employees from decrypting it. I looked at three services that include encrypted online storage along with other security services.
SpiderOak gives you up to 2GB of secure online storage for free but requires that you download a big client program, though you can access your data via a browser. The free storage offered by CryptoHeaven and SwissDisk top out at 50MB, but both of these services have more to offer, and SwissDisk doesn’t even require a client download.
Free encrypted storage with room to spare
Secure online storage is only one of the features of the SpiderOak service, but the site’s 2GB of encrypted-file capacity is difficult to ignore. You can also sync and share folders between multiple Windows, Mac, and Linux PCs. The service is designed primarily for backup but also lets you access your online files from any Internet-connected system.
SpiderOak claims to provide fault-tolerant servers to guard against data loss and also keeps old versions of your files to assist in recovery. The service uses a combination of 2048-byte RSA and 256-bit AES encryption. It also encrypts the keys you use to access the data so the company itself can’t access your data.
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