
Post Mortem Partial Outage on 07/19/16
Yesterday, our service has been partially down and service was severly impacted, due to a misconfiguration of a new load balancer. I am deeply sorry for all users who have been affected and for example could not sign in to their accounts.

Storing Personal Data in the Cloud – Encryption as a Solution
Is encrypted data still personal data and therefore needs special protection in the cloud? In this article we want to discuss this topic, with the focus on German privacy law and regulations.

Boxcryptor and Whisply – Guide for Windows
This guide shows you how to get started with our Whisply integration in Boxcryptor. Here you can learn how to share files with non-Boxcryptor-users right from your Boxcryptor drive.

Whisply Release and Boxcryptor Update – Boxcryptor gets Help
Official release of Whisply: The web-based file transfer service Whisply allows you to transfer files securely encrypted. Additionally, a Boxcryptor update for Windows and Mac brings many new features and Whisply integration.

Boxcryptor and Whisply – Guide for macOS
This guide shows you how to get started with our new Whisply integration in Boxcryptor. From now on you can share files with non-Boxcryptor-users right from your Boxcryptor drive.

Our encoding for encrypted filenames is now open source
Have you ever wondered why encrypted filenames consist of Asian characters? When we were working on the next evolution of our filename encryption for Boxcryptor, we had to solve a problem nobody would expect to exist today.

123456 – The Worst Passwords and How to Simply Pick Secure Ones
The LinkedIn hack has confirmed once again: people are very uncreative when it comes to passwords. And Mark Zuckerberg is no exception. Here are categories of the worst passwords ever, and some tips on how to easily manage secure passwords.

Now it is Official: Boxcryptor is Dropbox Premier Technology Partner
Boxcryptor has entered into a partnership with Dropbox and is now one of its selected Premier Technology Partners. More than 150,000 Dropbox Business customers can now profit from additional cloud security with “zero knowledge” encryption.