Cryptomator is a client-side encryption tool for cloud storage services.

Data protected via AES-256 encryption.
Individual and business features.
Managed and self-hosted options.

ENCRYPTED

File content.
File/Folder name.

NOT ENCRYPTED

File/Folder access/creation/modification timestamp.
Number of files/folders in a folder/vault.
File size.

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I wish people would stop giving credit to "prominent cybersecurity/cryptography experts" just because they released some "cypherpunk" book or software of unproven impact 30 years ago and have since then retreated into golden tenure, writing technically empty but catchy preprints with provocative titles. These "Ludd grandpas" (you know at least a couple of names of who I'm referring to) are, unfortunately, still worshipped by a large number of semireligious followers, who contribute to the spread of their moldy ignorance.

Thinking deeper, maybe mine is a typical case of rejection for the image in the mirror: I hope I will never become like that in the future.

The world does not stop at your rants. Keep moving and stay open-minded, or become obsolete.

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So, hear me out:

If instead of the current Hash+Salt based modality of password management, and given the relative lack of quantum complexity in how that all works for authentication, I have a proposition.

For any given password length N, N! hashes are taken for the password such that any substring starting with the first character and any arbitrary following sequential characters (D) to the length of the string (c0->cD) where D < N. This would require a quantum actor to deal with an element quantum mechanics is explicitly bad at dealing with: Certainty.

Instead of relying on the relatively low quantum complexity of the hashes, we extrapolate into another dimension and create an ordering of hashes that becomes a tangible certainty. Instead of having to find all of the hashes in a field (Low quantum complexity, High computational complexity), the operator must find a specific order from those hashes in the field (Extremely high quantum complexity, Moderate computational complexity).

It would also reduce the urgency of collision discoveries in hashing algorithms too.

Just a thought.

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