[Box Backup] Feature Request

Bjarne Carlsen boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:02:38 +0200


fre, 20 06 2008 kl. 18:52 +0100, skrev Chris Wilson:
> A simpler workaround, that does preserve client security, is to have
> the 
> client run a local bbstored, which saves files to local storage, and
> then 
> to send off a portable storage device containing the encrypted files
> to 
> the server operator and switch their configuration to back up to the 
> server instead. This way, their keys are never divulged to the server 
> operator or anyone else.

The trouble with this workaround is (as I see it from my end), that most
clients are Windows and as such cannot run bbstored - or am I wrong in
this?

Rgds
Bjarne