Re: Encryption for internet storage

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I thought about putting everything on an encrypted ext4 filesystem. Maybe compressing it and uploading. Kind of a complicated way to do it, but might work.

On Fri, Apr 21, 2023, 3:23 AM Andras Simon <szajmi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
2023-04-21 1:36 UTC+02:00, Robert Nichols <rnicholsNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On 4/20/23 14:08, Andras Simon wrote:
>> 2023-04-20 19:41 UTC+02:00, Bill C <bill.cu1234@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>> Yes but I am afraid too of encrypting something and then losing the key.
>>> Something that isn't going away, we all have that issue.
>>
>> If you store these files unencrypted on your computer (besides having
>> their encrypted version in the cloud), you may as well store the key
>> there.
>
> That sounds like a terrible idea. If your disk drive fails, now you've lost
> both your online data _and_ the key to your backup.

If the online version is *the* backup, then you're right, it is.
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