Threetags.com - Securing Your Data Online

If you are always comparing and contrasting ways to store and manage your personal information online to find the one that will suit your needs best, you will be glad to know that there is a new player in the scene. It goes by the name of Threetags, and it provides free storage services while emphasizing security and privacy at the same time.





The mechanics of the site can more or less be described along the following lines. Those who register create an account and choose a password that is under no circumstances transmitted to the server. Rather, it is encrypted in the browser by means of a hashing algorithm, and this “password hash” is employed to identify the user from that point onwards.

The process for encrypting the data is likewise described online, and since it employs the passwords themselves as the encryption keys this makes it impossible for others (and even the team behind the project) to guess these keys.

That is one of the main selling points of this service: it dispenses with SSL and introduces a service which implies that even those who have full access to data user on the server cannot employ as it is encrypted in a way of its own.

The one drawback of this system is that the chosen data encryption process is a heavy one in terms of CPU usage, so that the system will work best for those who use Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Internet Explorer is not recommended for these operations - if that is your preferred browser you will have to look elsewhere.