When I drag&drop a large file (For example a 650MB iso file) to Wuala then the encryption should use all cpu's/cores instead of a single one. - In the first step wuala makes a copy to it's internal temp location - In the second step the copy of the file is encrypted The encryption of a 650MB iso file takes about 20-30 seconds on my dualcore system. What can be seen, is that during encryption there is little disk activity but the CPU load cummulated over all cores/cpu's is only 50%. So in fact the encryption task is done on a single core or cpu. Since there are more and more multicore systems available it would be good to use them. I can think that on decryption probably the very same happens.