New week, new improvements: 140% faster encryption speed on macOS - eviltoast

From Team:

Hi everyone,

We’re relentlessly working to improve Proton Drive’s performance across all platforms thanks to your valuable feedback.

This week ends with an update in Proton Drive’s encryption that increases single file upload by 140% on the macOS app.

If you haven’t already, you can download the Proton Drive macOS app here: https://proton.me/drive/download.

We recognize that we still need to address other optimizations and fixes. This improvement is yet another step in our commitment to deliver reliable, fast, and secure apps for you.

Let us know what you think, and please keep your feedback coming!

Proton Team

  • rorschah@lemdro.idOPEnglish
    51·
    2 months ago

    From the AMA, someone suggested

    Yeah some Up/Download + simple management API would be really nice. Since Proton is loved a lot among programmers, I’m very sure there’ll be a lot of people in the community to create some implementation their own (including me)

    And Andy(CEO) replied

    This is actually good/important input. We went this direction with Proton VPN on Linux and the first version was a community built version which as OK. Eventually, we had to take the effort in-house to ensure it was sufficiently well maintained and keeping up with the latest features, but it was still a goo way to get started. We will indeed consider this for Proton Drive also, although it is a more complicated product (includes complex parts like sync engine and version conflict resolution logic, etc). -Andy

    Also, when pointed about Henry,Andy replied

    Yes, we know Henry, he should have access to the API specs/docs and he has a direct line of communication with us. -Andy

    So all hope is not i would say. And i would prefer rclone and apps based over than than electron wrappers tbh.

    You can read the whole thread here : Redditt comment

    • pmk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Oh that sounds good! I would also prefer rclone. I’m using the protonvpn through the native gnome network manager + ovpn profile rather than having to add some third party repo or the community flatpak.
      I wonder if that “he should have access” means that the API specs can be public information or more like “we trust henry but it’s still secret.” I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens next.