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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    32 months ago

    I also have media and other binary blobs which I’d like to archive in an encrypted fashion, will GPG suffice? ChatGPT mentioned OpenSSL for this but I’m not sure where that’s taking me.

    • @solrize@lemmy.world
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      32 months ago

      Openssl really isn’t the right thing for that. GPG is fine for individual files if you don’t mind leaking the approximate length. You may be better off with borg backup depending on your exact use case.

      • @MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldOP
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        22 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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          22 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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            22 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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              22 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.