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Fabrizio Giudici

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Oct 7, 2011, 7:52:46 AM10/7/11
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I'm searching for a sync solution (email, links, todo, calendar, etc...)
which works across multiple computers, possibly through a network, but not
through a cloud. I don't want to give my data either to Google, or to
Opera, or anybody else - and in any case, the cloud is overengineering for
my needs. I'd like to find something that I can run on my own server. I've
tried Zimbra, but it's an elephant, so no way. I'm converging to Opera as
my primary client for web and email, both on a regular computer and on the
smartphone / tablet.

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Casper Bang

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Oct 8, 2011, 8:55:59 AM10/8/11
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It's not exactly what you are asking for, but I can tell you what I do - since I stopped running my own server from my house (which is no more secure than other things connected to a network and which is costly in electricity).

I use a simple PIM (Personal Information Manager) app on Android called Pocket, where I put all my account info, memberships, subscriptions, wiki notes, serial numbers etc. in. The app is proprietary (not open source) but encrypts data using 256bit AES, a 20 byte salt and a PBE count of 100. All strings simply go into a SQLlite in a single file in your DropBox folder.

The reason I know this is because I analyzed the app and wrote my own desktop client for it (after getting the Ok from the original developer) and I sleep good at night knowing exactly what goes on. And *if* you decide you want to take a look at going this route, I'd have no problem sharing the code.
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