On 12/05/2016 11:53 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote:

On Tue, Dec 06, 2016 at 01:43:21AM -0500, Charles Fox wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I'm new to the list and to encryption generally. I don't consider myself a good
programmer but I needed to learn a little about gpg for work and I'm increasingl
y curious about it. I had two ideas for things I could build but I want to know
if they've already been done/whether they're bad ideas:

1) Cloud storage.
I think it would be relatively easy to write a program where any file I save in
folder X automatically gets encrypted and saved to folder Y Box/Dropbox/etc. Any
 new files saved in Y which my key can open get opened and put in folder X. Sinc
e the private key password would be saved for this to work automatically, it wou
ld be worthless if someone got on my machine, but if one of the cloud providers
gets compromised, all they would have is a collection of encrypted files.


AFAIK there are many solutions for this on decent OSes, don't know if
any uses exactly gpg.

Probably it is significantly easier to encrypt at file system level, not
at individual files.

Search the web for "encrypted filesystem cloud" (without the quotes),
there are many results and tutorials.

   I believe mega.co.nz does this when you upload using their application
   or browser extension. The encryption is done on your computer before
   upload, and is stored onsite encrypted.
   Rr