I usually use Age, Iβd like to hear your opinions.
I use LUKS-encrypted LVM volumes to store everything (and transfer via SSH or HTTPS), but would use GPG if I needed to encrypt individual files.
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tar | gpgis handy if you want more than a few files encrypted for transport.
If it is full disk encryption or for file containers I plan to update regularly, VeraCrypt. Itβs quite capable and has quite a number of encryption options.
For individual file or folder encryption, 7zip. Itβs a very straightforward program that is worth having installed given how much good of an all-round zip program it is.
Iβve used VeraCrypt successfully to encrypt volumes/folders.
Itβs worked great for me, although I recently started encountering issues accessing files but it seems the problem is with my external and not with the encryption method. Hopefully I can recover those files someday. Backup your backups and then backup again.
My volumes are PLAIN dm-crypt encrypted (i.e. LUKS without the LUKS bells and whistles) and the key is stored on my Vivokey Flex implant.
I mount them using scripts that combine crypsetup and vivokey_pam, with the ubiquitous ACR122U RFID reader: the systemd service file calls my script, I present my implant to the reader and voila: the volume is mounted.
Geez this guy secures. Impressive
Even more impressive when someone lops his hand off and presents it to the machine and gains access to his multiple gigabytes of Stallman x Jobs fanfic.
That implant needs to be the second factor so that the bad guys also need a wrench.
Can you tell us more about the implant? Is it painful to install? Is it uncomfortable to wear? Where do have it? What other things is it useful for?
Is it painful to install?
Honestly, yes. Itβs not fun when someone slices your skin open and then lifts your skin to create a pocket, even with lidocaine injections. But usually itβs 10 teeth-gnashing minutes and then itβs over.
Thatβs for big planar implants of course. The smaller ones are glass tubes the size of a grain of rice and injected under the skin, exactly like chipping a pet. Itβs 10 seconds and then itβs done. But those glass implants have reduced performances, especially for things like doing cryptography on the chip, which requires more power.
Is it uncomfortable to wear?
No. Iβve had mine for years and I honestly only remember theyβre there when I touch them.
Where do have it?
My Flex is in my right wrist. I have other implants (11 in total) in other locations. Mostly in my hands.
What other things is it useful for?
The Flex is used for cryptographic purposes (TOTP and computing hashes, the main purpose of the latter being those encrypted volumes). Itβs also used as a token to unlock my banking app on my phone.
All my implants are used for many things. I guess the best way to show them to you is to point you to this post I wrote a year and a half ago, in which I gathered all the videos I made to show their use in one post.
This is seriously impressive.
Did you use to post on Reddit? This is not the first time Iβve ran across DangerousThings and I think the first time around might have been caused by you lolI post on Reddit infrequently. Itβs not a very nice place to be. I might have posted something about my implants there in the past but I doubt it: I tend to avoid mentioning them on there because it invariably attract unwanted comments from religious nutcases.
You may have read something another implantee has posted. Iβm far from the only one out there :)
While I find your implants path very interesting, impressive and Cyberpunk worthy, I wouldβt use any externally accessible keys / fobs / etc myself. I wouldnβt want someone to unlock my stuff while Iβm sleeping. Same reason I avoid face detection unlock. My mind is the best safe out there, I can memorize a very lengthy passphrase and have no problems typing it.
Itβs not very likely, unless youβre a heavy sleeper who happens to sleep in unsafe places regularly - or your partner at home is up to no good.
Also, implants are kind of finicky with respect to reader placement, because theyβre sitting under a layer of skin full of conductive water, and theyβre usually not symmetrical, so the reader has to be positioned a certain way to score a good read. You as the implant owner know βthe moveβ (in fact, it quickly becomes second nature and you never think about it anymore) but unless you explain it to someone or they know about this shortcoming, theyβll have a hard time getting a read. Thatβs assuming you donβt wake up because someone is touching you, because the read range is very short - like 1/4" when the reader is ideally placed - and you donβt hear the loud bing from the cellphone.
But yeah, youβre correct: strictly speaking, if you have a good memory, a long and complicated password - or a mental βrecipeβ to make one - and a healthy habit of changing passwords regularly is better. Or better: a password in your head and an implant as a second factor.
I use GPG if thereβs just like a single file I need to encrypt. When I have to sync an entire folder to the cloud though, I use Cryptomator. I have also used VeraCrypt before, as well as TrueCrypt back in the days.
tar | gpg.Iβm pretty sure there are βbetterβ ways. Can someone please recommend?
Right now, GnuPG is absolutely safest for individual files. Thereβs no age client for Android, and while I like it, I am allergic to encryption systems without a robust ecosystem.
Someone else just pointed out that DroidFS can read gocryptsfs directories, which greatly expands my confidence in gocryptsfs - which is my preferred short term directory solution. For archival purposes, though, tar+gpg is the only thing I trust to be available and working in a decade.
Agreed. Whenever I encrypt stuff in bulk, I usually do it purely for archiving purposes and tar seems to be the most battle-tested archiving thingie
Donβt think those guys update that much. Still have libreddit for Reddit
? Thereβs no mention of libreddit on the encryption page
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/search?q=
Their community is very active, you could mention it to them
Gocryptfs (DroidFS)
Holy shit, I didnβt know about DroidFSβ¦ lets me use my gocryptfs folders?? Thatβs awesome! Thank you!
DroidFS on phone and sync the folder with laptop using Syncthing. On laptop I use whatever can decrypt gocryptfs.
Cryfs. I sync the directories with syncthing.
Why do you use age? Iβve heard of it before but never used it.
Iβve heard it recommended and Iβve never had a problem with it.
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