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Tue 2 Jan 2018 2:43PM

How can we ensure Privacy is being protected in cloud era?

KVM Kannan V M Public Seen by 381

While cloud being someone else's computer and we are sharing our private data with them because we need to use their cloud service?
Even though they might be using open source technologies, we will still have to trust the service provider with the data. Is there any way to avoid this dependance on trust on that provider?

  • How can we make sure our privacy is not breached because we send our data through someone else's computer?
  • Is there any standards for that?
  • How we can use encryption for that purpose?
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Nandakumar Edamana Tue 2 Jan 2018 11:36PM

There are some cloud storage services that claim to have client-side encryption enabled. And when it comes to the basic services like Google Drive, the simplest way is to use an archive format like 7z that supports encryption (of course, we shouldn't unzip it online).