Why Wuala?
Online storage is coming quickly, superseding traditional technologies and methods such as external hard-drives, USB flash drives, and tedious email attachments. Why? Because it makes life easier.
With an online storage you can securely store and backup files online. Once uploaded, you can access your files from anywhere at any time, and you can recover your files in case your computer should crash. You can also easily share part of your files with friends, family, and co-workers. Therewith you control who can access your files.
No need to carry around flash drives, no tedious email attachments, and no need to worry about computer crashes anymore. All your files online - reliably and securely stored in "the cloud".
Why Wuala?
This need for online storage hasn't gone unnoticed: search for 'online storage' and you will find dozens of services. So, the obvious question, why Wuala? Wuala is unique in many ways and we believe it's the best application for a wide range of tasks. In addition to an array of convenient and distinguishable features, there are three core principles which make Wuala really stand out:
1. Security and privacy
Wuala is secure and protects your privacy: In contrast to many other services, all data you store in Wuala is encrypted on YOUR computer before it is stored online.
Also your password never leaves your computer. This ensures that only you and those authorized by you can see your files and folders. Not even we can decrypt your data. Wuala employs 128 bit AES for encryption and 2048 bit RSA for authentication. If you're interested in how Wuala manages its encryption key, read more about the technology and have a look at our publication on Cryptree.
2. Bridging web and desktop
Wuala is neither a website, nor a classical desktop application - it bridges web and desktop, combining the best of both worlds.
Being a free application that can be started directly from a website, it allows for typical web use cases like sending someone a link to a file or using it in places like internet cafes where installing applications isn't allowed. However, as a desktop application, it can perform most tasks locally on your computer, making it much faster than a typical website and allowing for a level of security that wouldn't be possible if it were a web site. Read more about the features.
3. Economic technology
Wuala is based on a novel technology that reduces our costs so that we can provide you with a better service for free.
Wuala users can choose to contribute idle resources to Wuala. In addition to servers, Wuala can harness these resources. All data is first encrypted and then split into fragments which are redundantly stored on our servers and in the grid network. This allows us to save costs for downloads (bandwidth, electrical power) and thus to provide a better service for free, with a number of advantages that others just can't offer: unlimited traffic, no file size limits, fast downloads, and so on.
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