Hi, I was planning to encrypt my files with GPG for safety before uploading them to the cloud. However, from what I understand GPG doesn’t pad files/do much to prevent file fingerprinting. I was looking around for a way to reliably pad files and encrypt metadata for them but couldn’t find anything. Haven’t found any recommendations on the privacyguides website either. Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

  • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 months ago

    I’m using rclone, do you recommend I run borg on top of it to encrypt said files? And does borg explicitly do what I’m trying to achieve? I’m going to take a look at the documentation, thanks

    • solrize@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      I’m not really familiar with rclone. I just use Borg and it does about everything I could want. You can even ssh mount a Borg repo as a file system and browse the files, though it is read only (you can’t modify anything that way). Obvs you need the decryption key to do that.

      • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP
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        6 months ago

        I see. I’m using Cryptomator, but I was recently linked to rclone’s in-built encryption, which is probably what I’ll use next. Thanks

        • solrize@lemmy.world
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          6 months ago

          I will check into rclone again. People keep mentioning it. I think I may have considered it before deciding on borg. But my use case is primarily backup rather than archiving. The two aren’t quite the same.