Told or Known

Edit which negates the remainder of this post: The contents off two encrypted copies of the same file will only be the same if they are encrypted with the same key. Said key would have to have been provided by Bitcasa, which means they could look at the file any time they like. End edit

You are absolutely right, punkassjim.

And the real herp-derp on my part?

I’ve actually used MD5 hashes myself to de-duplicate my own files!

There’s still something tripping my bullshit detector on this thing, but I can’t get a good read on it.

Could just be echoes of past products that have said “never mind how we do it” in connection with security and compression, only to turn out they weren’t actually doing anything or were at best misguided about what they could do.