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 increasingly 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. Since the private key password would be saved for this to work automatically, it would 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