Best online storage encryption

[Jeff7181]

I saw a review once of some online storage vendors. One of the checkbox items they had for all the vendors was whether or not the vendor held an encryption key to your data. Most did, but some didn't. I can't find the article anymore, though. Anyone know of an article/review that provides that info?

 

[Jeff7181]

Looks like AVG LiveKive is just a rebranded SpiderOak service, except for $80/yr storage is unlimited. Anyone have experience with either of these? SpiderOak advertises its encryption and the fact that they do not have a key... I assume LiveKive is the same, but I don't see that mentioned in their marketing stuff.

 

[boochi]

If you can remember your password you could just compress an archive and use AES-256 encryption. Make the password long and complex and you really have nothing to worry about. The NSA probably has more important things to do than use their super computers to break into your files.

 

[Jeff7181]

If you can remember your password you could just compress an archive and use AES-256 encryption. Make the password long and complex and you really have nothing to worry about. The NSA probably has more important things to do than use their super computers to break into your files.

I'm more worried about an accidental security breach that would allow a malicious person to access all user content using the vendor's encryption key without having to use brute force. If the vendor doesn't have their own encryption key then that won't be possible.

I do the zip encryption now for certain things, but that involves using the client software to access the contents of the file every time I want to access the contents of the encrypted zip file. It would be nice to have a folder I could just dump sensitive files into and know that they're encrypted on disk and in the cloud and I hold the only encryption key.