Secure Storage, File Encryption, & The Cloud - Go Incognito 3. 14 - Techlore
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Date: 2022-04-15
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-If you do go with one of these services, try to encrypt your files using one of the services we discussed earlier, and only send encrypted files through the cloud services-
In the case of VeraCrypt, it means that it is safe to upload your encrypted VeraCrypt volume to a third party service. But it does not mean that you should upload files or folders within your encrypted volume to a third party service.
In other words, when you open (or mount) one of your VeraCrypt volumes, it looks to be in the clear, like any other volume. You can use your files within your VeraCrypt volume the same as any other drive letter.
So if you tag X number of files or folders and upload them to a cloud storage service, you are giving them your files without your VeraCrypt encryption -- and that is bad. It defeats the point of you having your data encrypted by VeraCrypt.
Each VeraCrypt volume is stored in a single encrypted file. The only way you should upload anything related to your VeraCrypt content is to upload the VeraCrypt file (never its individual file contents. You would need to have not yet mounted your VeraCrypt volume (or if you did, you need to dismount it) and then upload the single file which is the volume.
If you used VeraCrypt to encrypt your C: partition, then you are out of luck, as there is no single file to upload. Anything from your C: drive that you upload will first be decrypted by VeraCrypt and then uploaded to the cloud storage service.
By the way, I agree with our host about his admiration for VeraCrypt.
It is free, open-source, easy to learn and use, powerful, secure, and cross-platform. It is a win/win/win combination. The VeraCrypt developers are brilliant!
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-If you do go with one of these services, try to encrypt your files using one of the services we discussed earlier, and only send encrypted files through the cloud services-
In the case of VeraCrypt, it means that it is safe to upload your encrypted VeraCrypt volume to a third party service. But it does not mean that you should upload files or folders within your encrypted volume to a third party service.
In other words, when you open (or mount) one of your VeraCrypt volumes, it looks to be in the clear, like any other volume. You can use your files within your VeraCrypt volume the same as any other drive letter.
So if you tag X number of files or folders and upload them to a cloud storage service, you are giving them your files without your VeraCrypt encryption -- and that is bad. It defeats the point of you having your data encrypted by VeraCrypt.
Each VeraCrypt volume is stored in a single encrypted file. The only way you should upload anything related to your VeraCrypt content is to upload the VeraCrypt file (never its individual file contents. You would need to have not yet mounted your VeraCrypt volume (or if you did, you need to dismount it) and then upload the single file which is the volume.
If you used VeraCrypt to encrypt your C: partition, then you are out of luck, as there is no single file to upload. Anything from your C: drive that you upload will first be decrypted by VeraCrypt and then uploaded to the cloud storage service.
By the way, I agree with our host about his admiration for VeraCrypt.
It is free, open-source, easy to learn and use, powerful, secure, and cross-platform. It is a win/win/win combination. The VeraCrypt developers are brilliant!
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CryptoManiac
The one I always use is Internxt Drive, it is decentralized, open source and zero-knowledge. So basically all your files are encrypted, divided and send to different nodes and no one has the key to decrypt your data (as you said in the video other platforms such as DropBox hold this key. And is easy to use and I like that because even my girlfriend that hates computers and technology can use it.
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The one I always use is Internxt Drive, it is decentralized, open source and zero-knowledge. So basically all your files are encrypted, divided and send to different nodes and no one has the key to decrypt your data (as you said in the video other platforms such as DropBox hold this key. And is easy to use and I like that because even my girlfriend that hates computers and technology can use it.
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Nightmare
For cloud, if you are tech savvy, its not a bad idea to get your own nextcloud server either on localhost machine or to get a proper VPS, OpenVZ servers have problems with nextcloud now for some reasons because of the old kernel, or at least thats how it is for me, i would recommend KVM VPS!
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For cloud, if you are tech savvy, its not a bad idea to get your own nextcloud server either on localhost machine or to get a proper VPS, OpenVZ servers have problems with nextcloud now for some reasons because of the old kernel, or at least thats how it is for me, i would recommend KVM VPS!
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Clumsy
Even Nextcloud isn't end-to-end encrypted. They have an add-on, but it's in beta. The only self-hosted solution I found was Seafile. Sadly it's way less versatile than Nextcloud, but at least it's safe, even if my provider were to attack my server.
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Even Nextcloud isn't end-to-end encrypted. They have an add-on, but it's in beta. The only self-hosted solution I found was Seafile. Sadly it's way less versatile than Nextcloud, but at least it's safe, even if my provider were to attack my server.
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Farzher
why not mention cryptomator?
i tried everything you listed but ended up using that because it's the most convenient and the security is fine.
it allows you to use dropbox and all other free cloud services with full encryption
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why not mention cryptomator?
i tried everything you listed but ended up using that because it's the most convenient and the security is fine.
it allows you to use dropbox and all other free cloud services with full encryption
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Mountain-Dewer
You missed two of the best options. Syncthing and Sync[dot]com. Syncthing speaks for itself and Sync[dot]com is the best implementation of crypto and convenience out there. If you haven't already checked it out you should.
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You missed two of the best options. Syncthing and Sync[dot]com. Syncthing speaks for itself and Sync[dot]com is the best implementation of crypto and convenience out there. If you haven't already checked it out you should.
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TheStreamReader
My problem is remembering all the passwords set for encrtyped usb drive volumes. Got any tips for that? How to remember passwords without having to store them somewhere and at least keep them all different.
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My problem is remembering all the passwords set for encrtyped usb drive volumes. Got any tips for that? How to remember passwords without having to store them somewhere and at least keep them all different.
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Kimmie
Thanks for the vid. Do you recommend using google drive but encrypting the files using cryptomator before syncing them to gdrive? Or should we opt to use other cloud storage providers?
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Thanks for the vid. Do you recommend using google drive but encrypting the files using cryptomator before syncing them to gdrive? Or should we opt to use other cloud storage providers?
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GROWNUPS
In this aspect, Cryptomator is a great File & Drive Encryption Software,
Works even on Cloud Drives and apps are available for Windows, Mac, Android!
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In this aspect, Cryptomator is a great File & Drive Encryption Software,
Works even on Cloud Drives and apps are available for Windows, Mac, Android!
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Tim
I'm using Tresorit. They offer a much more compleet solution. I'm really looking forward to the Proton Callander Android and iOS apps.
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I'm using Tresorit. They offer a much more compleet solution. I'm really looking forward to the Proton Callander Android and iOS apps.
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