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Originally Posted by ottischwenk
Or you can simply enter your account login - email address and password.
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actually its completely different. good luck making it work...
when you first sign up for mega a very long complicated encryption key is created, ciphered with your account password and used for uploads. and there is no password recovery system. lose your password = lose your data.
you would have to give your mega account password to CC ... anyone who accesses CC can steal it, and access all your mega data. there's no secure Oauth mechanism like with google or dropbox where CC never sees the cloud password.
I suggest you study the basic design: ( see below)
also mega deletes inactive accounts, imposes huge speed reductions when caps are hit- its basically a bait & switch product where service quickly becomes rubbish unless you pay and pay.
If I was a developer I would not want the headaches of supporting an interface to something which is basically a pirate file locker [ all that encryption is there ti give mega plausible deniability as to what is in the cloud]
plus its 99% owned by a shell company owned by the chinese...
dont take my work for it - go google it
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This is how MEGA works: When you upload a file, a random password is generated for each file.
The file is ciphered using AES in client, and the ciphered file is uploaded to Mega.
The file password is ciphered with your account password and uploaded with the file.
So, at this point, you have uploaded the file to Mega, but ciphered in AES.
Mega has the ciphered file, and the ciphered password. So they don't know how to access your files.
When you access your account, Mega sends you the ciphered password.
Your client deciphers it with your account password.
If you download the file, the client deciphers it while downloading using the file password.
If you want to share the link, the file password is revealed...
for that reason another user doesn't need your account password in order to access that file."
So the security of your files rely on your account password.
If you lose it, or someone steals it , all the security is broken.