Distributed cloud storage

A device of a user, the device comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a storage device storing instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform a method, the method comprising:
• identifying a data file to be uploaded to a cloud storage of the user;
• obtaining an encrypted client registry from a primary cloud provider in a plurality of cloud providers that provide cloud storage to the user;
• retrieving a key associated with the device by decrypting the encrypted client registry using a hash of a password associated with the user;
• obtaining credentials of the plurality of cloud providers by decrypting a locally stored cloud configuration using the key;
• generating a plurality of coded fragments from the data file based on a generator matrix of erasure encoding, wherein the number of coded fragments is determined based on a number of the cloud providers associated with the user;
• and
• selecting a respective coded fragment for uploading to a corresponding cloud provider in the plurality of cloud providers.