What are /r/Cryptomator's favorite Products & Services?

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Cryptomator has been audited, which is of course not a guarantee that there aren’t any bugs.

The difference however is that I can chose to keep my private key private. Cryptomator doesn’t care where it stores the encrypted files, so if I just wanted to store encrypted files on a network share, or even a USB drive, that option exists, without having to upload my private key to their servers.

With version 1.6, I can even chose to keep my private key out of the vault.

Anyway, I evaluated my options for a long time before deciding on Cryptomator, and for me it was the best choice. That doesn’t mean it’s the best choice for everybody else, and if Boxcryptor fits your needs, then by all means stick with it. None of them are bad products.

1. It can't
2. https://www.cryfs.org/ has such features, but I have not personally used them,
   since they dont have an android app
3. One thing I would do is to make a random-sized dummy file with an appropriate size (1 ~ 100% of total file sizes). Zip everything to a single zip file. It would be impossible for anyone to know the filesize, except it smaller than the zip file, which doesn't really reveal much.
   You can also use multiple dummy files with multiple zip files if you dont want to encrypt and decrypt 100gb file everytime you add something to the existing zip. Its not an ideal solution for files that you access frequently, but for long-term storage files, this can be a good solution without any coding.

The pin code function is not available anymore in boxcryptor since the last major release with file integration. At least this is what their blog says (don’t use it by myself)

https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/blog/post/everything-new-boxcryptor-for-ios/#goodbye-app-protection

There is no “local copy” per se. It’s opened in the cache and will open in which app you need. If that app saves the file to the local file system then yes.

Check this out:

https://cryptomator.org/security/advice/

Cryptomator might not be the best tool for this.

May I point you towards Joplin, which is an open-source note-taking app that supports End-to-End Encryption and uses the Markdown syntax?

I reply to my own question (I hope it helps other cryptomator redditors): it is possible to work fully offline with Cryptomator for Android with Onedrive files 🤩🤩🤩

Here is how:

1. You need to install the application FolderSync, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite (the free version is enough, but feel free to support the developers with the pro version)
2. Install it and configure it so that your Onedrive vault is synchronized to your internal Android storage
3. Then open Cryptomator for Android and select 'add an existing vault' and for the source choose 'local storage' instead of 'Onedrive' (FolderSync we installed at step 1 is doing the sync)
4. Enjoy, you can access your vault from your Android even with in airplane mode, as all is working offline

I can see your point, but from my perspective I wouldn't worry about having Dropbox sync my encrypted files since the app can't read anything from the files.

Nevertheless, the site you mentioned does also recommend https://syncthing.net/ as file-sync tool, and this tool seems to work with Dropbox as well. So, since you value the advice of this site, you should give it a try. (cannot say anything about this app as I do not use it).

And yet they have a section on exporting your key, Which is stored on their servers, which STRONGLY suggests they’re storing your key.

I understand why they store it, but people need to understand that with “web access”, you’re just 3 lines of JavaScript away from exposing your private key password, and I don’t know anybody that actually checks the 10+ MB of JavaScript being downloaded for “web 2.0” pages.

Cryptomator is not able to directly up-/download files to your google drive. You can use other software to sync your Google Drive to your PC and then encrypt the synced folder. Otherwise use Mountain Duck, there Cryptomator is build in. https://mountainduck.io/

I’m glad you found a solution, even if it isn’t Cryptomator. Any form of encryption is an improvement.

There’s a good reason why Cryptomator keeps the file names randomized in an unencrypted state- it’s not great if your cloud provider, or someone else for that matter, is able to identify what files contain.

Anyhow, I believe I’m finally grasping what your issue with Cryptomator is. If you don’t want to mount it locally, ie. downloading ALL the data every time you access the vault - then you use Cyberduck instead. It enables you to browse remote files and has Cryptomator integrated - you can see the real file names from your cloud storage without downloading them first.

This is one solution I’ve been using. Should have been obvious advice from my side from the get-go, sorry about that.

Boxcryptor is an option, but is closed source (which in many people’s opinion isn’t a good thing) and if you need more than one vault you need to pay a subscription fee every month. Here is a comparison (made by the team of Cryptomator).

I’ve tried most, if not all, solutions that work with both IOS and MacOS - and other platforms- this is by far the best one I’ve found so far. My suggestion is that you first try to solve the issue with Cryptomator before moving on. It’s a great service, which is why I’m active in this forum. For most users it really isn’t a lot of tinkering, the community I directed you to is more for complex issues - not for everyone.

Let’s start with some basic troubleshooting.

-Are you running the latest Cryptomator install?

Have you tried creating another vault and checked it the issue persists?

I might as well ask, are you completely sure the vault isn’t located on you SSD? Made that mistake myself once.

Have you tried to exceed the “limit” that you mention? Might just be a software display glitch.

[Since the last update, on both MacOS and IOS15, I’ve had plenty of issues regarding the devices not showing correct storage space]

If an outsider takes control of your cloud provider, eg. iCloud, then they could download the encrypted files. However, without the Cryptomator application and the vault password they will never gain access to the contents in an unencrypted form.

I would therefore suggest to a) never let anyone get access to your cloud provider, b) keep your passwords very secure, and c) use a 16 character long password. The vault encryption (AES256) is enough to protect your files, with current computing power, for thousands of years.