Licence question / future feature question

TomDrop

Hi,

Since a couple of days, I am using BC successfully and happily, and so I am just about to purchase a licence, so I could store/sync all of my Documents in my dropbox encrypted. Thus 4 questions from my side before I do that:

1) I am synching my box to 2 PCs, one Ipad and one Android. Do I have to purchase the licence only once, otherwise it is getting too expensive?

2) I have tons of portable applications in my dropbox, which I can't put into the encrpted folder as TCP/IP isn't supported out of that BC folder. Will this change in the future? This would be a "killer" argument to go for BC.

3) BC is closed software, and I am not uncomfortable with that by definition, especially as you guys sit in Western Europe and your pictures look nice :-) So can we assume that there is not master key which you could give out to any authority which would presure/torture you enough for doing so?

4) Today, I could do the same for free with the Windows port of Dokan's library and the GUI available for free. What, beyond you all being nice guys, is the reason I should pay money for your service once? Will there be features (like portable TCP/IP support) which will differantiate you from that alternative? Please don't bring up simplicity of use, I am good enough in this whole thing for that not to be a benefit (for me personally).

Thank you!

Cheers
Tom

Robert

Hi Tom,

1) BoxCryptor is licensed per user per platform. This means, it is necessary to purchase the appropriate licenses for all three platforms (Win, Android, iOS). However, you can use each license on all your devices (e.g. if you have a desktop and a laptop computer).

2) This will definitely change in the future in one of the next releases!

3) There is absolutely no master key / whatsoever. As you noted, our encryption is compatible with the open source project EncFS, so you can review the EncFS source code to see how the encryption is done.

4) Even now, we're having a better integration of Dokan within BoxCryptor (e.g. regarding Office files) and we're doing our best to deliver a better solution. We're having many more features and improvements in the pipeline. I can't tell more yet, but it is very likely that the future BoxCryptor versions will use a superior virtual hard disk integration instead of Dokan (with TCP/IP support).

--Robert

TomDrop

Hi Robert,

Great, thanks a lot for the clear answers. I am purchasing right now :-)

Cheers
Tom