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Or, you know, just use Dropbox. And add encryption on top with these two commands: mkdir ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe encfs ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe Yes, it's a

by moe 13y ago

Or, you know, just use Dropbox. And add encryption on top with these two commands: mkdir ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe encfs ~/Dropbox/_ ~/Dropsafe Yes, it's as easy as that. On OSX you'll have to 'brew install encfs' first.

edvinbesic 13y ago
Interesting, does this allow for incremental updates while encrypted?
- e12e 13y ago
  Encfs is pretty opaque -- afaik modifying a file will at least change an entire block, possibly the entire file. Two identical files will look completely different (per file IVs) -- so no deduplicaton is possible. But adding and removing files works as expected, so adding a few files to the encfs system, should translate to the same number of files added to the underlying folder.
  - Tho85 13y ago
    EncFS allows to deactivate some of these features at the price of reduced security. The EncFS manpage [1] has a good explanation of all the tunables. If you want to use Boxcryptor, you're even advised to deactivate most of these features [2]. [1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/encfs http://linux.die.net/man/1/encfs [2] https://boxcryptor.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/565934 https://boxcryptor.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/565934
gasull 13y ago
Yes, but you still have to install a closed-source Dropbox client in your system.