Storing your data in the cloud comes with both positive and negative aspects. Boxcryptor is a solution that helps with this by encrypting your data on your device before it gets synchronized to the cloud storage provider of your choice.
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Zero-knowledge encryption
Boxcryptor is a zero-knowledge service provider, as all the private and sensitive information is always stored in an encrypted form and protected by the user’s password, which is never sent to the company servers.
From the technical specifications, it is clear that passwords, password keys and file keys never leave the user’s devices. The user keys, group keys and company keys are always encrypted and are stored on the Boxcryptor Key Server.
When it comes to the decryption process, the password is used to unlock the private key, as well as the wrapping key which is used to unlock all other keys in the system. The only types of keys stored in plain text on the Boxcryptor Key Server are public keys.
Boxcryptor currently supports two-factor authentication through Duo Security integration. This is only available for Duo Enterprise users, so if you are on a free or paid Duo Security Business plan, you won’t be able to use the feature – for now. The team at Boxcryptor told me they are working on moving on from Duo and expanding the two-factor authentication feature in the near future.
Encryption “Made in Germany”
Boxcryptor isn’t a secure cloud service, but an added security layer for one of the supported cloud providers. They currently support 24 providers.
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The software is available for Windows, Mac OS X, as well as all the most common mobile platforms (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile). There’s also a beta version for Chrome, but due to the complex nature of running this type of a service inside a browser, it’s currently a bit buggy.
As Boxcryptor boosts security for the data stored with other providers, you’ll need to have the client app of the provider installed on your computer. In the newly created Boxcryptor folder, you’ll find sub-folders for each detected cloud storage provider. Right-clicking any of the files will open the Boxcryptor menu. After encrypting a file, it will take a second or two for the cloud provider client application to detect the change and perform the sync.
An important feature of Boxcryptor is the ability to share files with users and groups. You can select a specific user or create a group that will include selected users. I had some slight issues with sharing files over Google Drive, but everything worked OK when I tested Box.
The company account administrators can use the web interface to do perform customization. Through the interface they can manage and view users and groups, analyze their activity, set up notifications for failed attempts, and tighten up security by setting up different security policy elements.
Key export
When assessing whether to use an online service that will manage your data, you need to evaluate risks, such as the provider going out of business, and be confortable with the level of trust. Most users don’t read the endless Terms of Service documents, but the service you are using can shut down tomorrow and you can lose data.
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The Boxcryptor team is well aware of the high level of integrity they need to provide to their users. They even thought about the worst case scenario: what if the company ceases to exist? I assume that, in this day and age, any web service that is shutting down would notify users in advance in order to minimize problems, but I like that Boxcryptor immediately provides a “Key export” function.
When using the service, the keys are securely stored on their servers, but you can also download the key and feed it to the Boxcryptor application manually. This means that in case of some major crisis, if you’ve exported the key you will be able encrypt and decrypt your data at any time. For the most paranoid of you who just read that and though about “Why shouldn’t I use a local key by default?”, have in mind that you would miss all other features discussed in this article.
Boxcryptor for iOS
The iOS application provides the option of reading encrypted documents on your mobile device. Through the app, you need to authenticate with the cloud provider of your choice and this will enable you to decrypt and view your secure files by “calling” the Boxcryptor app. The app looks nice and worked perfectly.
Privacy
The zero-knowledge relationship between the user and the company behind Boxcryptor stands on high ground. While not directly connected to the security aspects of Boxcryptor, one privacy-related issue bothered me a bit. In the “Updates” section of the settings screen, there is selected by default checkbox that says “Automatically send Diagnostics and Usage Data”.
From the privacy policy linked from that screen, and the feedback I got from the developers, this data is collected only to get insights on how the software is used and what are the things that could be improved. I know that many software providers are keen to get this type of data, but I don’t like when a hardcore security product does this by default.
Documentation
When you trust a company to build a security layer over your data, you want to know as much as possible about the inner working of the service. I’m glad to see that Boxcryptor documentation is rather extensive. Besides the usual PDF manual that depicts product installation and usage, there’s a technical overview of the service, as well as an extensive support section that covers a large number of topics.
Boxcryptor plans and pricing
Boxcryptor uses three paid tiers for their product:
- Unlimited Personal (36 EUR per year) works on unlimited cloud storage providers and supports unlimited number of devices.
- Unlimited Business improves on the previous tier with support for group management and sharing. The price is 72 EUR per year per user.
- The top tier, called the Company Package, enables Boxcryptor as the data encryption solution for your entire team, and you can enjoy the following options: Active Directory support, usage of company Master Key, compliance guidelines customization, centralized user management, auditing and encrypting network shares. Company tier pricing starts at 6.40 EUR per user per month.
If you want to test the solution, there is a free single user licence that works with one cloud storage provider and can be used simultaneously on two devices.
Final thoughts
Some will find Boxcryptor a terrific solution because it can work with their current cloud storage provider and others, interested in a more integrated solution, will see the Boxcryptor’s “add-on” approach as a minus. Putting aside your preferences, Boxcryptor is a very good system that is easy to use and offers some strong possibilities related to locking down access to your encrypted data.
The security debacle at Dropbox last week opened a lot of peoples’ eyes to the need for user-managed encryption for cloud-based storage. Read on to learn how to secure your Dropbox (and other cloud-based files) with Boxcryptor.
Why Layer Additional Security Onto Your Cloud Storage?
On June 19 there was a four-hour security glitch at Dropbox. During that four-hour period anyone could log into any account with any password. If someone knew the email you used to login they could supply any password at all and it would work. Essentially it didn’t matter how powerful the encryption scheme Dropbox was using to secure your files was as the security flaw temporarily allowed anyone to login to your account and be authenticated as though they were you—a procedure that would bypass the strongest encryption in the world since the system believed the interloper was a valid user on the account.
So what can you do? Not used cloud-based storage at all? That’s an option but many people enjoy using Dropbox and the majority of their files are music, media files, and other non-critical files. Rather than quit using Dropbox (or other cloud-based storage drives) you can easily and selectively secure files within your Dropbox so that even if the account is compromised the intruder would still need to decrypt your heavily encrypted files.
Securing Dropbox with BoxCryptor
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Although many people simply keep an encrypted volume within their Dropbox (like a TrueCrypt volume) doing so semi-defeats the purpose of having a remote cloud-based drive that continually updates and saves your files. When using a large encryption volume Dropbox will only upload the volume when the volume is umounted. Any time you’re inside the volume working and changing files you lose the continual backup feature.
For files that you wish to encrypt, with minimal fuss and with the ability to open and manipulate individual files, while maintaining the benefit of continual backups, BoxCryptor is a dead simple solution. BoxCryptor is a Windows-based solution for file-by-file encryption using AES-256 bit encryption. It is compatible with the Encrypted Filesystem (EncFS) and thus your BoxCryptor encrypted files can be accessed on Mac OS X and Linux computers.
If you plan on using BoxCryptor with a Mac OS X computer make sure to check out this detailed guide. If you plan on using it with a Linux computer make sure to check out this guide. The remainder of our guide will be concerned with securing a Dropbox account using BoxCryptor from a Windows machine.
Installing and Configuring BoxCryptor
The installation process for BoxCryptor is quite straight forward. BoxCryptor comes in three flavors. The free version allows you to encrypt a directory up to 2GB in size. The Unlimited Personal version costs $20 and allows for unlimited directory size. The Unlimited Business is $50 and simply a commercially licensed version of the Unlimited Personal version.
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Download the installation file here. We’ll be using the free version as we only need to secure a small volume of files. Run the installation file and follow the prompts. BoxCryptor will automatically detect if you have Dropbox installed on the computer and will ask you if you want to place the BoxCryptor directory in your Dropbox folder. Click Yes.
The only time you’ll need to pay close attention is when you reach this screen:
Here you need to check to make sure BoxCryptor properly placed your directory within your Dropbox folder system. You also need to select a drive letter for BoxCryptor to mount a virtual drive. We selected Z.
You can leave the Advanced Mode options alone unless you use Dropbox’s file versioning feature. By default BoxCryptor encrypts the filenames. This filename encryption is a nice security boost but it breaks the file versioning system in Dropbox. If this will be an issue for your workflow make sure to check Advanced Mode and turn off the file name encryption. If you do not use the file versioning and will not need to rely on filenames to download your encrypted files through the web interface it is best to leave the file names encrypted.
If you should decide at a later date that you wish to remove the filename encryption (or enable it) you can use BoxCryptor Control (a small command line tool) to toggle the setting. You can read more about this technique here.
In the final step you will assign a password to your BoxCryptor volume. Choose a strong password. It’s up to you whether or not you want BoxCryptor tor remember the password. We opted to have it remember the password since our goal is to remotely secure the files not locally secure them (if someone has access to our physical computer to the degree that this password being remembered or not is our last line of defense we have bigger problems to deal with).
At this point you should see the BoxCryptor folder (or whatever alternate folder name you selected) within your Dropbox folder. You should also see the virtual drive in your list of drives (in our case, Drive Z). There are two very important rules you need to follow going forward. First, do not put files directly into the BoxCryptor folder. If you place files directly into the folder they will not be encrypted. They will simply be regular files like those found in another other folder in your Dropbox directory. Second, do not delete the encfs6.xml file in the BoxCryptor folder. That file holds important information that helps BoxCryptor decrypt your files, deleting it renders BoxCryptor useless and your files permanently encrypted.
In fact it is best you never even go into the BoxCryptor folder directly, only use the mounted volume. Speaking of that mounted volume, let’s dump some files into it and see what happens.
In the above screenshot we’ve just dumped files into the Z drive, BoxCryptor’s virtual drive. We can work within this drive like we would any other drive on our computer. Files are encrypted and decrypted on the fly and any changes we make to individual files will be shortly reflected in the contents of our Dropbox account.
What does it look like in the BoxCryptor folder now? Let’s take a peek.
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Each file has been individually encrypted by BoxCryptor and, as evidenced by the green check marks, already uploaded to Dropbox. The majority of our Dropbox account, which contains MP3s, ebooks, and other non-personal files, remains unencrypted while the BoxCryptor directory enjoys strong file-by-file AES-256 encryption.
If you have additional questions about BoxCryptor you can hit up their FAQ file, check out their blog, or visit their feedback forum. Have experience with BoxCryptor, EncFS, or other file-by-file encryption tools and cloud-based storage? Let’s hear about it in the comments.
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