Security in your Cloud is of vital importance. Encrypting your documents & being rest assured that they cannot be accessed by unauthorized means, allows you to sleep at night. An open source Cloud encryption software licensed under the MIT / X Consortium License is here to bring client-side encryption for your Cloud, thereby protecting your sensitive documents. So you hold the key to your Cloud content with this software.
‘Cryptomator’ has released an application which is big on security, yet light on complexity. Indeed, the developers believe that complexity in security systems produces inherent flaws which are difficult to work with. So you don’t fuss with accounts, complicated cyphers or cloud access grants. You just need a password, and you’re in business. There are no backdoors, & no registration.
Here’s how it works:
- Create a digital ‘safe’ in GoogleDrive, OneDrive or Dropbox or wherever; assign a passphrase
- Drag & drop your sensitive data into a virtual drive brought to you by Cryptomator
- The data is encrypted by the software, & you can breathe again
- Gives you access to a virtual file system to add, edit & remove files as needed
The vault where you store your encrypted data nests safely in your Cloud, while you continue to work on your files. It’s just like having a virtual USB drive. Whatever you put in your virtual hard drive is encrypted in your vault. The software uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) & 265 bit keylength to encrypt your file Content & names. If someone is trying to force entry into your Cloud, his attempts will be foiled by the use of Scrypt, a key derivation function. Cryptomator (https://cryptomator.org/) is easy to use & doesn’t require you to configure or synchronize separately. You don’t have to learn new workflows. It’s a transparent utility & allows you to continue working as usual with your files.
Cryptomator was developed by 2 students at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University in Germany. Tobias Hagemann & Sebastian Stenzel are informatics students, who released the beta version 0.11.0 this month.
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Image Credit: Cryptomator
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