You Wouldn’t Hand a Stranger the Keys to Your House

Yet every time you use Google Drive, Dropbox, or iCloud, that’s exactly what you do with your files.

They keep a copy of the key.
They insist they only use it “when necessary.”
History shows “necessary” has a very wide definition.

What End-to-End Encryption Actually Means

Your device encrypts the file before it leaves your laptop or phone.
What lands on the server is unreadable gibberish.
Only you have the key to turn the gibberish back into your photos or documents.

The provider, even if forced, hacked, or just curious, literally cannot open it.

That’s the whole difference. Everything else is theater.

One Story Is Worth a Thousand Warnings

Last year a Google Drive user uploaded routine photos of his toddler’s skin condition to share with a specialist.
Google’s automated scanner mis-flagged them as CSAM.
His account was instantly disabled. All files gone. No appeal process that worked.
He eventually got the account back, months later, but only after journalists got involved.

He broke no laws.
He just used a cloud that could read (and judge) his files.

Stories like this happen quietly every week.

Normal Cloud Storage Is Fine - Until It Isn’t

Regular providers use server-side encryption. That stops random hackers, but:

• They hold the keys → they can open anything.
• They sometimes do (insider cases are real and documented).
• Governments ask, and they can legally comply.

End-to-end encryption removes that risk completely.

This Isn’t Just for Journalists or Activists

You don’t lock your bathroom door because you’re plotting a crime.
You do it because some things should stay private by default.

Same with your files.

Why It Matters Even More in 2025

Today’s encryption is safe against today’s computers.
In less than a decade, quantum computers will break most of it.

Intelligence agencies already copy encrypted traffic today betting they’ll decrypt it later.
Your baby photos uploaded in 2025 could be readable by strangers in 2035, unless the math was future-proof from day one.

That’s why we don’t just use E2EE. We use post-quantum E2EE.

How Ellipticc Is Actually Different

Most companies can’t offer real E2EE because it breaks their business model (scanning, ads, “smart” features, easy government requests).

We built Ellipticc the hard way:

• Encryption happens 100% in your browser.
• Your key never leaves your device, we never see it.
• Files are sealed with XChaCha20-Poly1305 + NIST post-quantum algorithms.
• If you forget your password, your data is gone forever. That’s not a bug. That’s the guarantee.

We chose real privacy over convenience and “AI features.”
That’s why the big players will never do this.

The Bottom Line

If the company can read your files, someone eventually will.
If they can’t, no one else can either.

That single line decides whether the cloud is your private vault, or just someone else’s hard drive with your name on it.