Google would test an encryption service for Drive

In order to reassure users after Prism case, Google should soon provide an option for Drive Encryption, service storage and sharing online.

Few people know this, but Google Drive service does not receive an encryption option. And at a time when the Prism hyperbolic case sows doubt about confidentiality of data stored in the platforms of online data storage, the California firm could soon provide an option encryption to reassure users. For now, and since the case of espionage boxes Gmail by the Chinese authorities, only the connection between the user and Google's servers is secure by default HTTPS via an SSL tunnel. If data transmission is encrypted, it is not the case for servers in the firm.

Some companies as well BoxCryptor offer an encryption service platforms for storage and sharing online - Drive, Dropbox, SkyDrive or Box - but it must be done before shipping files through a mill. And to view the documents, it is necessary to repatriate to avoid jeopardizing their safety. It is becoming very difficult to index encrypted files. Impossible to know from one file name if a particular document contains some of the information sought. The Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs working on a project indexing encrypted and stored online files using correspondence tables (Boolean Searcheable encryption), but this is still a research program without commercial application .

Google would test an encryption service kept online Drive files. A welcome option even today, it has become clear to many that the confidential documents absolutely should not leave the secure perimeter of the business or to take everything in a platform storage. The right side of the Prism matter is that many companies will have to modify or enhance their security measures.