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    Securely encrypt drives before syncing them to Amazon S3 Cloud

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by krneki, Sep 13, 2016.

  1. krneki

    krneki Notebook Enthusiast

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    I intend to backup my whole system, secondary and external HDDs to Amazon Cloud. Currently my drives are not encrypted at all. I'm running Windows 10 (no UEFI).

    I was wondering what is the best way to securely encrypt private data before uploading it to Amazon's cloud? I would like to have on the fly encryption, so there would be no need to create a container any sync it manually with Amazon's cloud software afterwards, but rather sync and encrypt the whole drive in real-time.

    Quite some people recommend Boxcryptor, but it doesn't support Amazon's Cloud. Cryptomator seems like a good choice, but how secure is it, since it's not open source? There is also Duplicati, SyncBackPro and StableBit, do you have any experience with any? How do they compare? Any other recommendations?
     
    krneki, Sep 13, 2016
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    Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?

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    @krneki so you're encrypting the data against Amazon, right? Or just against somebody who could gain physical access to your system?
     
    Starlight5, Sep 14, 2016
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    krneki Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes, I am encrypting it against Amazon. For the physical access I use VeraCrypt.
     
    krneki, Sep 15, 2016
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