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Mega launches with mega FAIL
Kim Dotcom's new cloud file locker, mega.co.nz, has all-but-failed to appear online, with its mastermind claiming global enthusiasm for the site has overwhelmed its resources. But The Reg can report the site has been flaky since shortly after its launch, when the press-only login we were sent did not work. Regular attempts to …
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Monday 21st January 2013 20:35 GMT Anonymous Coward
"failed on a variety"
"failed on a variety of platforms (Mac, Windows, iPad, over ADSL in two locations and 3G wireless)"
Are... are you saying that you think making a request to an overloaded server from a different client device / different connection will affect it's ability to respond?
I really need to find another IT news site.
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Monday 21st January 2013 20:58 GMT flankme
When you see propoganda it is so much sweeter when you can call it out for what it is and know beyond doubt that you are right. For some this is a massive story for some just an opportunity to create a bit of traffic to their sites, as it the case for the author of this piece. I managed to register three separate accounts with MEGA over the time period he is talking about and before then too.
I have managed to upload a few files and although small it worked very well so i call bullsheepers to the author of this piece and i have registered specifically to say that, not that all the comments will be shown but on sites that really matter MEGA is a huge success for all, and Kim is again making waves that need to be made in this closed society of ours where greed is the ultimate factor in any decision by those with just a little perceived power. The internet is the great technological levelling of the field, where anyone can say anything they want and share anything with anyone else. It is time for those who thought they had power to fall by the wayside and their cries and desperate attempts are going to be met with the contempt they deserve.
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Tuesday 22nd January 2013 16:19 GMT atomcrusher
It's convergent encryption. The upload process works like this:
1. Encrypt the file with the file's hash as the key
2. Upload the ciphertext (which will always be the same for the same plaintext)
3. Client-side encrypt the hash (key) with the user's password
4. Upload the encrypted key for storage
The download process then goes:
1. Receive the ciphertext (encrypted file) and the encrypted key to that
2. Client-side decode the key with your password
3. Client-side decode the ciphertext with the now decoded key to obtain the original file
Because the encrypted file will *always* be the same from the same source file, they can detect duplicates. Since the hash function is one-way, there's no way to decode the original file server-side. Of course, it does mean that they know which users have uploaded a copyrighted file.
This is why the lesson here is: If you don't want Mega to know you've uploaded a copyrighted file, archive it with some random data before you upload, so the hash will be different.
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