So, this whole thing kicked off because I hit a wall with local storage - it just doesn’t grow with you forever, you know? Plus, putting all my eggs in the basket of other companies felt a bit risky with all the changing rules and government access stuff these days.
What I ended up with is pretty cool: a personal file vault where I’m in charge. It treats any outside storage like it can’t be trusted, and all the encryption happens right on my computer. I can even use cloud storage like S3 if I need to, but I never lose control of my own data.
Honestly, it just kinda grew on its own; I never set out to build a product. I’m mainly sharing it here to see how other folks deal with these kinds of choices.
You can check it out at https://www.leyzen.com/
Hey there! That’s a great question.
So, when you’re just using something by yourself on your own computer, E2EE doesn’t always make a huge difference. You really start to see its value when you bring in outside storage, like S3, or when you have a bunch of people using it.
Think about a company running its own app. If someone uploads sensitive files and doesn’t want the system administrator or the tech team to read them, E2EE comes to the rescue. The files get scrambled before they even leave the user’s device. So, even if the server is in-house, the admin only sees encrypted stuff.
It’s basically about separating who operates the infrastructure from who can actually read the data, which lets people use shared or external storage and knowing their stuff is private.