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[Discuss] AeroFS



Tom Metro wrote:
> If you are syncing files among machines that are all within your
> firewall, you may not even care about file encryption. Wire encryption
> may be adequate, and even that may not be needed.

BYOD means anyone can sniff the wire, and WiFi everywhere is tantamount 
to letting the whole world in.


> Have you looked at these open source sync products?

Yes, I have.

> http://www.syncany.org/

Not only does it not encrypt traffic, it doesn't encrypt basic user 
authentication.

> http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/

Unison does it better.

> http://www.data-bag.org/

Local only.

> http://synchronicity.sourceforge.net/

Unison does it better.

> Also, on the proprietary side, there is a fairly new sync tool from
> BitTorrent, http://www.bittorrent.com/sync .

Worth looking into but, as you point out, proprietary.

-- 
Rich P.



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