We all love cloud storage services, especially which are like Dropbox in which syncing is extremely easy and we know all the methods to get more of the free Dropbox storage space. But a new cloud storage service Tresorit is in the market to beat Dropbox and other online storage services.
We know all the services which want to beat Dropbox has to have something other than just seamless syncing. Some feature or some additional perk which would lure a user to start using their service. Just like SkyDrive has its Fetch service ( which is incredible ) Tresorit has something which none of the online syncing and storage services have, local data encryption.
Tresorit, a company which offers 5GB of free space but for limited time they are offeringLifehacker readers 50GB of free storage space for life. There is no catch at all. Yes, just go via the special link and claim your free 50GB space. Despite being a similar service like Dropbox or Mega or SkyDrive it is one of the best alternative for any online storage service with the best account security. All the files and folders are encrypted before they get uploaded.
Files are encrypted with AES-256 before being uploaded to the cloud. Additional security is provided before upload by HMAC message authentication codes applied on SHA-512 hashes. Encrypted files are uploaded to the cloud using TLS-protected channels.
That is not it. To put their security to ultimate test, Tresorit is inviting all the hackers to break its encryption and if they do so the successful hacker would win a $10,000 prize. If you are a hacker, you should check about it and wait for 15th April to do so.
As of now the software is only available for Windows but soon would be available for all the platforms which includes Mac, Android and iOS. The setup is a very simple and easy-to-follow process.
With their high standard security, there is only one issue which might bug many users. You cannot recover your lost password, which means once entered you should never forget it. Never. The other bad thing being, there is no web-interface to access your files, but you can still share folders with people and works smoothly as any other Dropbox alternative should.
With their high standard security, there is only one issue which might bug many users. You cannot recover your lost password, which means once entered you should never forget it. Never. The other bad thing being, there is no web-interface to access your files, but you can still share folders with people and works smoothly as any other Dropbox alternative should.
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