OwnCloud Encryption

[littlebuddha]

Hi everybody,

I was wondering where to find more precise information about the server-side encryption. How does it work? What is/are the used technique(s)?

What happens to the encrypted files/folders if you want to share it/them with someone who is/isn't part of OwnCloud?

I hope that I am not reasking the same questions again and again, but I haven't found any other post concerning this subject so far...

Thank you for helping

LB

[Rancor]

Hi,

i had the same question and found this blog entry about the encryption in OwnCloud:

http://crypto.junod.info/2012/05/24/own ... ncryption/

I don't think this will answer your question but should be a start

[tpn]

How does it work? What is/are the used technique(s)?

Perhaps this file can shed some light on your questions: http://gitorious.org/owncloud/owncloud/blobs/master/apps/files_encryption/lib/crypt.php

What happens to the encrypted files/folders if you want to share it/them with someone who is/isn't part of OwnCloud?

AFAIK sharing with encrypted files is not supported at the moment We are working on it. If you enable encryption, sharing is disabled.

If you would like more info, drop by on IRC (evening Europe time is best usually) and ask around.

Cheers,
Tom

[littlebuddha]

Hello,

Thank you a lot for the information! Will need to think (about options among others) now


Best,

LB

[yuccaone]

Hi,

I'm interested by this option and I would like to know if some update are available (in the administration panel, I have the module in deprecated).
I would like to activate encryption for all documents and users (I use OC 4.5.1a).

Thanks

[RandolphCarter]

Sorry to be the messenger of bad news, but it seems it's not such a good time to activate encryption - there will supposedly be some changes to the encryption app with version 5.0 of owncloud (the 4.0.x /4.5.x version had some security problems as far as I heard). But I haven't heard of any release plan for 5.0 yet...

[yuccaone]

Re,
Thanks for your quick reply.

Do you know when OC 5 is planed ?
if we use the OC 4.5 version with regular uploads, do those files will be automatically crypted while the OC5 upgrading ?
Thanks

[Rancor]

OC 5.0 is planned for January 2013 as you can see here:

http://owncloud.org/dev/roadmap/

[yuccaone]

Re,
Thanks.

[Brausmith]

What happened to the roadmap? Does it still exist?
I'm new to OC, and only installed v5 after reading it was supposed to have encryption, only to find today that it doesn't.

Is there any update on it's inclusion?