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Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by planetjones on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:27AM (#12399000)
Looks really good. I am pleased more projects are adding Google Cloud Drive support now. What I really want to do is:

- create documents on my Mac which autosync to Cloud Drive in encrypted format (this should tick that box)

- be able to access said documents on any device including iOS, which transparently handles the encryption

The use case is I now scan all my documents into PDF format, but keeping them secure and accessing them on iOS seem to be almost mutually exclusive.

I looked at some other solutions for this which had their own iOS app and security mechanism (Boxcryptor mainly) and I didn't like it - I just didn't feel in control. And I got nervous about what happens if Boxcryptor goes under; I don't want to rely on them keeping their app up-to-date to read my documents.

I know Apple will never allow it but wouldn't it be nice to be able to mount your own network drive which all apps could access.

Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by keville on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @01:13PM (#12399857)
Apple's iCloud Drive has a decent web interface for the non-Apple subset of "any device", and otherwise seems to offer what you want. Curious if you had other reasons it doesn't meet your needs.
Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by sneak on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @04:33PM (#12401252)
Apple either has or has realtime access to your encryption keys for iCloud Drive.
Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by mwfunk on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @05:32PM (#12401668)
I thought Google Drive did as well, is that not the case?
Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by RachelF on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @06:27PM (#12401941)
No. Google Drive data is encrypted when being transferred, but not at rest.

My guess is that Google does not like encryption as it prevents de-duplication between users.

For end-to-end Google Drive encryption you'll an app like BoxCrypter or SyncDocs.

Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by sneak on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @06:46PM (#12402044)
Based on what I have read about Google's internal services, I don't believe your assertion to be true.
Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by gcr on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:11PM (#12402572)
The fact that Google can offer fulltext search of documents implies they cannot be encrypted, because Google can read them.
Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by skybrian on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @09:51PM (#12402697)
That depends on what you mean by encryption. The data can still be stored in encrypted files where Google has the key(s).

https://cloud.google.com/security/encryption-at-rest/#encryp...

Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by gcr on Saturday September 03, 2016 @11:27AM (#12419542)
By some definition, accessing gmail over TLS counts as "in-flight encryption" too.

Encrypting when the organization has the keys is only effective when accessing the ciphertext is easier than accessing the key material.

I'd prefer a solution where Google could only store encrypted blobs with no access to my keys and all decryption happens on the client device.

Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by zonywhoop on Thursday September 01, 2016 @07:50AM (#12404510)
I use owncloud on my own server to handle this between all my Macs, Linux boxes, and iOS devices. It works incredibly well.
Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by coolspot on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @07:57PM (#12402332)
mega.nz has end-to-end encryption and iOS client.
Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by alexandre_m on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @11:38PM (#12402957)
It's a matter of time before that thing shuts down.

I'd rather store my files on snapchat.

Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by gcb0 on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:08AM (#12403216)
not endorsing either, but it is sad that something that has less pirated content than youtube gets so much attention from the law.
Re:Rclone: rsync for cloud storage by tomohawk on Thursday September 01, 2016 @04:38AM (#12403777)
Probably didn't donate to the right politico.

http://observer.com/2016/08/media-orgs-donate-to-clinton-fou...

These days, its pay to play.