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[John Newman]

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 at riseup.net> wrote:
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>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

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