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Building a private internet together: Tuta & Ente partnership (tuta.com)
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Starting today, all paying Tuta users can request 25% off their first year of Ente’s encrypted photo storage so you can not only keep your emails and calendars private, but also your photos.

Ente provides end-to-end encrypted photo storage, ensuring that only you hold the keys to your data. Ente doesn’t mine your data and doesn’t show you ads.

We at Tuta are thrilled to have teamed up with Ente to build privacy-first tools that are both secure and beautifully easy to use. Whether you’re backing up precious personal pictures or need to sync images from one device to another, Ente makes sure your content stays yours - and only yours.

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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This sounds really interesting and just what I was starting to look for.

What I'm not clear on and couldn't find info about is what's the storage size trade-off? Presumably you get these benefits by providing some of your storage to others, as they do for you. I'm trying to decide the size of disk I need to use and not clear how to estimate that. Also not clear how recovery is dealt with if my storage fails spectacularly. Can you restore from the "cloud" or do you still need to have your own full backups? The fact that links still work when you're offline makes it sound like cloud recovery is possible but didn't see anything about that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Hello and thanks!

    Sorry for the delay, my PC had a nervous breakdown yesterday.

    The storage acceptance can be configured, but for now there is only either you accept anything, or you accept up to twice the size of your file (default).

    Also, there is a (configurable) limit where files are auto accepted, under 64Kb with a total size of 16GB.

    I'm thinking about other ways of brokering the deal, like high/low bandwidth, size of course and availability but that is work in progress.

    But today, for example, if you store your photo collection of 1000 1MB photos, with a redundancy of 10 (default) the median and max storage you'd need would be:

    Median: itemsize * redundancy = 1000 * 1MB * 10 = 10 GB

    Max: itemsize * redundancy * 2 = 1000 * 1MB * 10 * 2 = 20 GB

    BTW;

    You can store GB sized files, but it's not very convenient yet (it uses lots of RAM and the app freezes up for a while) and you might not find someone to "trade" with.

    And it's not yet battle proven, so I'd keep a backup to be sure. In the future, you just need your links, and if you have lots of links you can just put them in a folder store that on the network too (with a high redundancy!) and keep just one master link for a total backup.

    You can sub here for info and of course if you have more questions!

    Or just fire away here.

    Cheers!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Thanks for the reply. I'm not sure this is for me given the storage requirements. I was hoping for some magic math I guess that didn't require the extra magnitude of storage it seemed would be required, but alas no magic was found.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    You can also just do a tit for tat and divide the requirements by ten. There is a possibility that someones pc has a problem and can't serve one of your files back when you need it though. That's why the base is 10x oversharing, a good value for a backup is surely somewhere in between...

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