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[Philipp Heckel <philipp.heckel@xxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome! Done.

- News on the website: http://www.syncany.org/
- and a post on Google+:
https://plus.google.com/+PhilippHeckel/posts/efyJasBHeuv


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 6:39 PM, Mathieu Velten <matmaul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Here is the proposal :
>
> https://www.eclipsecon.org/france2014/session/syncany-secure-open-source-file-sync-tool-concepts-architecture-and-work-progress
>
> And you can retweet this to attract interest, and hopefully have the
> talk selected :)
> https://twitter.com/eclipsecon/status/455738635401187328
>
> Mathieu
>
> 2014-04-12 16:55 GMT+02:00 Thibaud Antignac <
> launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is my first message to the list. I am interested in Syncany for a
> while
> > but never took the opportunity to take part to the discussions on the ML
> so
> > far.
> >
> > The abstract seems very promising for the presentation :) Though I am
> not an
> > expert in Syncany, here are some proposals, mainly typo oriented (please
> > note English is not my mother tongue). I +1 to the suggestion of Philipp
> > about making a less sensational title which could be difficult to
> justify if
> > an attendee asks questions about it (how to be sure it's actually NSA
> > proof?).
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > Title: Syncany, a secure open-source file sync tool: concepts,
> architecture
> > and work in progress
> >
> > File syncing services are great (especially Dropbox and their
> cross-platform
> > clients), but they all come with a major flaw: these services (and who
> knows
> > who else) can read your data.
> >
> > Syncany is an open-source Java application aiming at synchronizing files
> > between various devices using any dumb and/or untrusted storage facility
> > (S3, WebDAV, FTP, …) by using encryption and authentication to secure
> your
> > data.
> > It supports various advanced features like deduplication and compression
> to
> > save space and versioning to keep track of the various versions of your
> > files in an efficient way.
> >
> > You can regard it as an encrypted, binary-oriented, and simplified Git:
> no
> > active central facility is needed, and all the complexity — put in the
> > client logic — is hidden from the user.
> >
> > This talk is for people interested by the concepts and the architecture
> of
> > this software:
> > - cryptographic concepts, repository files structure and format;
> > - syncing concepts and data model (chunked structure, metadata, and
> > versioning);
> >
> > - work in progress, roadmap, more ideas?
> > - growing community, join and participate!
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > By the way, it's very good some people take time to spread the word about
> > Syncany :)
> >
> > Best,
> > --
> > Thibaud Antignac
> >
> > On 12 Apr 2014, at 12:53, Philipp Heckel wrote:
> >
> > Hi Mathieu,
> >
> > sounds really good. The only thing I would have done is to make the
> title a
> > little less lurid/sensational -- especially the NSA part.
> >
> > How about this?
> > "Title: Syncany, a secure open-source file sync tool : concepts,
> > architecture and work in progress"
> >
> > Best
> > Philipp
> >
> >
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