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Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily (www.theregister.com)

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[–] RedSnt 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Thank you for the tip. Disgusting how "features" like this are turned on by default.

If I wanted to encrypt everything I put on OneDrive, hopefully something that is crossplatform, how'd I do that? I'm on linux right now.

EDIT: A quick search brings up VeraCrypt a bunch of times and it's apparently FOSS, does anyone have experiences with it?

[–] Strongbeard@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Veracrypt is intended for local file system encryption. Do not use it for cloud encryption. You will need to reupload the entire encrypted file that encapsulates all your encrypted files every time you make a change, which eats a lot of date/bandwidth as it increases in size. Source: https://www.cryfs.org/comparison#veracrypt

You probably want something like cryfs or cryptomater, like the other commenter mentioned. gocryptfs might work if you do not care about Microsoft trying to guess the contents of your files based on their metadata/file size and how that changes over time. (See watermarking attacks for details)

[–] RedSnt 1 points 21 hours ago

Thanks a bunch for the technical reply.

Veracrypt is intended for local file system encryption. Do not use it for cloud encryption. You will need to reupload the entire encrypted file that encapsulates all your encrypted files every time you make a change, which eats a lot of date/bandwidth as it increases in size.

I have unlimited gigabit internet so I wouldn't be too worried about that, although accessing said cloud drive from another machine I might soon run into problems, so that's really good to know.

You probably want something like cryfs or cryptomater, like the other commenter mentioned.

CryFS and Cryptomator both look perfect for cloud encryption indeed. Surprisingly I'm leaning towards CryFS. I've really gotten to love the mounting of RAR files (rar2fs) and other compressed archives (archivemount-ng), so CryFS looks just like what I'd prefer - but Cryptomator has an android and better windows version which sounds more handy..

Quick look around and it looks like DroidFS supports CryFS, so I think I'll take my chances.

[–] spacelord@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Veracrypt is great. Cryptomator works on Android as well.

[–] RedSnt 1 points 20 hours ago

Cryptomator works on Android as well.

That or CryFS sounds like the way to go from the replies I've looked at now. Thanks for the recommendation!

[–] Mechanite@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I've used veracrypt for years, starting back on Windows and I still use it since I moved to Linux. I don't use all of the features for it but what I have are encrypted volumes that exist on hard disks as a single file, which when opened with veracrypt, show themselves as a new disk in the system.

There's probably better ways to encrypt data on onedrive, but you could probably create one of those encrypted volumes to store on onedrive.