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What are your preferred methods of file encryption? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by wtry@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I usually use Age, I'd like to hear your opinions.

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[–] sxan@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Right now, GnuPG is absolutely safest for individual files. There's no age client for Android, and while I like it, I am allergic to encryption systems without a robust ecosystem.

Someone else just pointed out that DroidFS can read gocryptsfs directories, which greatly expands my confidence in gocryptsfs - which is my preferred short term directory solution. For archival purposes, though, tar+gpg is the only thing I trust to be available and working in a decade.

[–] hackris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed. Whenever I encrypt stuff in bulk, I usually do it purely for archiving purposes and tar seems to be the most battle-tested archiving thingie