Encrypting Your Dropbox Seamlessly and Automatically

The key to dropbox's awesomeness is delta compression, which this is totally going to destroy. Aside from placing a greater load on their servers in terms of storage and bandwidth, it will degrade your experience. Caveat emptor.

the use case discussed in the article seems to be exactly the one for tarsnap (<a href="http://www.tarsnap.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tarsnap.com/</a>), that is encrypted remote backups. the only upside is this this awkward setup is free (or ~ 1 dollar a month cheaper), though at the cost of being much more adhoc.

Honest question: if you trust dropbox.com enough to let them run a daemon on your box, does this really buy you anything?

I'm not affiliated with them, but if you want zero-knowledge, encrypted dropbox-esque storage (and a few other benefits) you might try spideroak instead.

I have a TrueCrypt volume that i keep on my dropbox and it has worked fine for me for over a year. It was very easy to set up in Ubuntu.