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. 2) re-mailer usability An Outlook (sorry) macro (sorry again) to save outgoing mail as .msg file. Python script monitors folder were the .msg would appear, encrypts the msg, composes and sends new blank message with the old message as an encrypted attachment and the proper forwarding instructions. I'm not an anarchist, please forgive me.
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.
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
If you have a keybase account, you can access something similar with kbfs. Although the idea behind it is data signing, not encryption.... Actually, I think it's mostly useless at the moment, but could turn into something cool. John On December 6, 2016 10:07:22 AM EST, Razer <rayzer@riseup.net> 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
On 12/05/2016 11:53 PM, Georgi Guninski wrote: 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
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