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Maybe they use block deduplication on the storage arrays? Particularly looking at the "our service may automatically delete a piece of data you upload". In other words, you already uploaded it encrypted and they're just serving out the de-duplicated bits.


There wouldn't be much point in doing that.

Encrypted data is indistinguishable from random data, so it is incompressible. The chances of finding anything significant to deduplicate are so low that it's not worth trying.


Piece is the keyword here.




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