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\begin{abstractpage}\label{combox-abstract}
File storage providers on the Internet have made it non-trivial for
- individuals to store personal files on the file storage provider's
- computers. After Mr. Snowden disclosed information about the
- National Security Agency' (NSA) surveillance programs that allowed
- the NSA to access information stored on file storage provider'
- computers, online file storage became a non-solution for storing
- personal files for everyone who detested the possibility of somebody
- else being able to access their personal files. In the past, there
- have been separate efforts to come with a solution to allow
+ individuals to store their personal files online. At the same time,
+ there has been revelations about the existence of a billion dollar
+ surveillance industry\cite{website:wikileaks-spyfiles} that is
+ building and selling tools to governments and dictatorships to snoop
+ on its own citizens. In a world which is fast becoming Orwellian,
+ storing personal files on storage provided by file storage providers
+ is not even an option for some individuals. In the past, there have
+ been separate efforts to come up with a solution to allow
individuals to use storage space provided by file storage providers
- in a way that it made it impossible for file storage providers and
- to access the files. combox is one such effort. It allows an
- individual to store personal files in the ``combox directory'' on
- all her computers (running GNU/Linux or OS X) and the combox program
- takes the files, splits and encrypts them and spreads them across
- file storage providers' directories. Therefore, when an individual
- uses storage space provided by file storage providers through
- combox, each file storage provider gets only a part of the file in
- an encrypted form.
+ in a way that it made it impossible for file storage providers or
+ ``third parties'' to access the user' files. combox is one such
+ effort, it allows an individual to store their personal files on the
+ storage provided by Google Drive and Dropbox in such a way that only
+ part of each file (in encrypted form) is stored in Google
+ Drive/Dropbox. combox is a python package compatible with GNU/Linux
+ and OS X platforms. This report contains an overview of combox --
+ what it is, how it was developed and tested; explains how combox is
+ different from Vollmar's Combo-Box\cite{vollmar-combo-box}; reviews
+ projects similar to combox that help computer users to securely
+ store personal files on storage provided by file storage providers;
+ lastly, enlists things that can be done to improve combox.
\end{abstractpage}