Encrypt your data automatically before syncing to cloud storage using Cryptomator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- In this video, you are going to see how to encrypt your files using Cryptomator. You will also see how to restore encrypted data from the cloud storage on a different or a freshly installed OS.
Cryptomator is a free open-source zero-knowledge encryption software that enables you to encrypt your data automatically and transparently before it gets synced to a cloud storage like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or virtually any other cloud storage you want to use.
It places the responsibility of owning the decryption key exclusively to you only, so make sure you never lose or forget it.
Jump to:
0:57 Installation
2:15 Add a new vault
5:32 Encrypt data before sync with GDrive
7:18 Restore your encrypted data on a different computer or a freshly installed OS
Download Cryptomator: [cryptomator.org/](cryptomator.org/)
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Thanks for the video. Excellent. It us a pity that Vault locations are all listed in the left pane of Cryptomator. It would be better security to have a choice to hide Vault names and locations. One could then navigate to the Vault (step 1) and use password (step 2).
This is like having a hidden safe (e.g. behind a painting) with a private combination instead of having your safe in the middle of your lounge room.
Thank you very much for this very clear guide!
So if the master key file somehow corrupted or lost, whole vault will be lost?
How does one restore the encrypted folder (from a physical backup) in case of hard drive failure or loss of the encrypted folder from the Cloud? How do we recreate everything back - the exact environment on another PC, device, cloud...)? Does your later part of the video cover the latter question?
Excellent tutorial. 10 out of 10.
Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
nice and clear guide. Thank you
Thanks a lot! Perfect tutorial
Thanks! Glad you liked it
Cryptomator looks great and behaves well with “small” files but it has issues with large ones. Unfortunately
How large?
Great tutorial thanks so much!
Glad you found it useful. Thanks for watching!
How come your vault is showing on the left side of the Finder? Mine isn't.
Edit: Nevermind, found the solution
Thanks for the guide. A question - if you want to make edits on that encrypted document in your case - and have it stay encrypted post-edit, the way to do it is to make the edit on the “My Vault”, citing your example? That’s it?
Yes, exactly! Just go to your "My Vault" virtual drive (or however you called your vault), find the document there and edit it as you would any other document on your computer. When you make the changes and save the document, the re-encryption will happen transparently in the background.
Thanks for watching!
here's the thing... can I change the default location of my windows libraries (documents, music, videos, downloads, desktop, etc) to be inside that vault by default? Basically I want a zero knowledge sync of my computer as I go (a sync/backup)...
Considering encryption with providers such as pcloud is a paid add-on and can't be used in this way anyway, I'm looking for an alternative... is this possible to do?
That's a good question. I'm not using Windows so I don't actually know whether there are any apps and windows services that use those directories in any way. The Desktop directory is one example which is heavily dependant on the actual windows desktop that you see on your screen.
Which brings me to the point that I would strongly advise not to mess with those directories, because essentially you would need to convert these directories (or your whole user directory in Windows 😱😱😱) into a Cryptomator Vault. Please don't ever do that. This would mean all those files would get encrypted, but some of the Windows' services might be dependant on the files in there, and it would basically see encrypted data, i.e. gibberish, resulting in some functionality being broken or potentially even more severe problems, like being unable to log in or getting to your data.
It's always better to just create a separate directory somewhere in your user home directory, like e.g. "Personal" or something, which you configure as a Cryptomator vault and then sync only that directory to your online storage like described in the video.
In that case you can just move your files from your regular "Downloads", "Music", "Videos" directories into the corresponding directories within this folder.
What's also nice about this is that it creates a clear separation between the things you keep locally on your drive vs. what you sync to the cloud.
Can I drag existing files on the cloud storage into the virtual/mounted vault?
Nobody seems to mention this, can this be used for local storage, say on a flash drive? And also can you use this with a flash drive on both subdued and android? Thank you!
No it can’t be. For this you may use Veracrypt.
Yes you can
Yes, just open your Flash-Drive, create a Vault in the drive, open the Vault and then load your Data in the vault, Close. Voila.
I meant used between windows and android.... Veracript won't do this
Now I'm having a new problem, new phone, watch a video each time video close it logs me out of crtyptomator and have to put password in again, this is on android with usb flash
Is there a possibility not to encrypt file names?
No, I don't think that's possible. You can also see the following discussion with Cryptomator developers on Github related to this: github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator/issues/101
@@codelistic Yes, exactly this thread. Take a look on "mozonyms commented on Jun 21, 2021". I haven't seen anybody who uses this.
@@Matt_44_44 Yeah I've seen it. Basically the guy forked the official Cryptomator repo and implemented this by himself. But I would never use anything but the official app. Btw his fork hasn't been updated in ages with changes from the official one...
@@codelistic I see. Great, thank you for that info.
I am looking for the alternative for e-Share (nCrypted Cloud) as it started to work not stable on Windows. Vivo was great (and before Vivo I used something with green logo, I do not remember the name, and also great. Both were stopped unfortunately.) Maybe, I will try Cryptomator as it seems that encrypted file names maybe will not be such a big problem for me.
Algorithm
This obviously means I have to keep it sync with my harddrive, which defeats the purpose of storing in cloud