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		wmf on Jan 22, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A word on cryptography Basically this isn't dedupe. If two people upload the same file, Mega will store two copies.

eps on Jan 22, 2013 [–]

But is it possible to share a file and a key, so that a receiver of a share wouldn't need to re-encrypt the file and could instead stash a copy as is?

I bet they support this. If I were Mega, I'd be doing this yesterday.

wmf on Jan 22, 2013 | [–]

Sure, they do that. But I don't consider symlinking to be dedupe either.

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