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Can I decrypt the files I upload to my Cloud through the SMEStorage gateway without access to SMEStorage ?

April 26, 2017Cloud decrypt files Gateway smestorage upload

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Can I decrypt the files I upload to my Cloud through the SMEStorage gateway without access to SMEStorage ?

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SMEStorage enables users to choose a private key to encrypt files on upload to their underlying cloud and does not store this key on the platform. SMEStorage uses AES-256 encryption using the Rijndael cipher, with Cipher Block Chaining (CBC) where the blocksize ia 16 bytes, to do this. You can use any AES-256 decryption tool that supports the Rijndael cipher with 16 byte blocksizes. For example the popular freeware file manager Total Commander has a free plugin to handle such decryption.