Show HN: Ellipticc Drive – open-source cloud drive with E2E and PQ encryption

ellipticc.com

14 points by iliasabs 14 hours ago

Hey HN, I’m Ilias, 19, from Paris.

I built Ellipticc Drive, an open-source cloud drive with true end-to-end encryption and post-quantum security, designed to be Dropbox-like in UX but with zero access to your data, even by the host.

What’s unique:

Free 10GB for every user, forever.

Open-source frontend (audit or self-host if you want)

Tech stack:

Frontend: Next.js

Crypto: WebCrypto (hashing) + Noble (core primitives)

Encryption: XChaCha20-Poly1305 (file chunks)

Key wrapping: Kyber (ML-KEM768)

Signing: Ed25519 + Dilithium2 (ML-DSA65)

Key derivation: Argon2id → Master Key → encrypts all keypairs & CEKs

Try it live: https://ellipticc.com

Frontend source: https://github.com/ellipticc/drive-frontend

Would love feedback from devs and security folks — particularly on encryption flow, architecture, or UX.

I’ll be around to answer every technical question in the comments!

QuiCasseRien 43 minutes ago

Nice, but please stop with the words "forever" when it's about costs, ie: "free forever". It harms your message.

foxylad 9 hours ago

Your "About" links seem not to work. In my case I was interested in where data is hosted, and the only information I see (from your HN post) is that you are from Paris. Does this mean EU hosting (which is good)?

groby_b 11 hours ago

"Open Source" is a pretty clear case of lying by omission.

You open sourced the frontend. Without a clear license.

That's not an "open-source cloud drive"