From 3aa09c7df10512da0c40dddc339c9b8ee87894ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carla Schroder Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 16:20:04 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] added note that encryption increases file size --- admin_manual/configuration/encryption_configuration.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/admin_manual/configuration/encryption_configuration.rst b/admin_manual/configuration/encryption_configuration.rst index 90352c10c..0e265c4b9 100644 --- a/admin_manual/configuration/encryption_configuration.rst +++ b/admin_manual/configuration/encryption_configuration.rst @@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Dropbox and Google Drive) will be encrypted by the ownCloud server, and upon retrieval, decrypted before serving them to you and anyone you have shared them with. +.. note: Encrypting files increases their size by roughly 35%, so you must take this into + account when you are provisioning storage and setting storage quotas. + When files on external storage are encrypted in ownCloud, you cannot share them directly from the external storage services, but only through ownCloud sharing because the key to decrypt the data never leaves the ownCloud server.