Re: Deja Dup UI Review

Semantically, "encrypt" means a one way street.
Only decryption can resolve the protection.

Once a program offers to encrypt your data, it suggests nothing less.

Browsers inform about an encrypted connection, that's a completely different thing and would be totally misinforming, if formulated as "encrypt my files".

The question here lies in whether the transmission should ask the server to encrypt, or we encrypt data locally and simply append to the already encrypted remote file..



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On 25.04.2010 06:02, Anthony Ettinger <[email protected]> wrote: 

One suggestion I have is for the checkbox "[x] Encrypt backup files"

-- it's unclear whether its only transferred to the cloud encrypted,

or if it's actually stored on the cloud encrypted too.



For me, I wondered if it meant the difference like using scp vs. ftp

-- once the file is in its destination it isn't encrypted (unless the

file itself is encrypted by some other means)...or whether it actually

stores your data on the S3 server in an encrypted format (obviously

this would be ideal and would be nice to know that if it is or isn't

the case).



Perhaps:



[x] Encrypt backup files

     (encrypts data on server and while transferring)



[x] Encrypt backup files

     (encrypts data while transferring only)





...whatever the case may be.



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