heavydust

I used to pirate movies like the dirty pirate that I was. Now I'm training my own personal LLM for educational purpose, just like Zuck.

It is very legal and common in France too. You're free to decline as long as you're a customer. You're free to accept or not see the web site.

si ça n’apporte rien, comment expliquer que ça monte

Les arnaques existent depuis près de 10000 ans. C'est peut-être tout simplement une arnaque.

He should pray harder, not rely on stupid materialistic science.

He also received blood transfusions

Science for me, not for thee.

Yes, the encrypted file is then placed immediately into the local Dropbox folder. Once again it's all very confusing but if I can sum that up, Cryptomator is not there to sync things, it's only there to show you a virtual hard drive.

The files are encrypted in the RAM of the computer and stored immediately, you can see the changes in your Dropbox folder where they are stored (encrypted).

the upload only happens when the Vault is closed (I think?)

There is no vault with Cryptomator! Yeah, it's annoying and I understand your concerns now. They call it that but it's only a background service that encrypts files when you copy them in the virtual folder (of Cryptomator, not Dropbox). What they call the vault is that service, but the files are there and you can see it with their names scrambled in the real directory of Dropbox.

The upload happens when Dropbox sees a change in its own directory. For example, you copy "hentai.png" in Cryptomator, Cryptomator will encrypt and save it to the local Dropbox as "aiernstaernst.xyz" and then the Dropbox service will see that "aiernstaernst.xyz" has changed and will upload it immediatly (or maybe with a few seconds of differences but we can't know this).

On Windows you would have: F:\Vault\hentai.png linked to C:\User\Dropbox\aiernstaernst.xyz. Cryptomator shows you the fake F:\Vault drive when it's running (the so-called vault) while Dropbox only sees C:\User\Dropbox

I backup to an external drive using a bash script

As long as your bash script copies the files to the Cryptomator directory, they will be encrypted before being stored as this service acts as a fake driver pointing to your Dropbox directory. But I agree that the term "vault" is really confusing. It's only a fake hard drive that detects copies and modifications, and encrypts and decrypts files in that fake drive, which is linked to the real Dropbox drive that only sees scrambled content.

It's a neutral process that only stores files wherever you want, it's independent on any cloud or solution. You can even use it with a USB key without any cloud at all. I happen to use Veracrypt for my weekly backups (emails, some texts) but I could replace all that with Cryptomator and I'm sure it would be easier since I wouldn't have to change one big 2GB file every time.

IMHO banks are like taxes and plaintext emails: they are not and never will be private, and you shouldn't expect them to be.

We should do that in France with cocaine in the "national assembly." They would all be fired though but I don't mind.

at what point does Dropbox upload that file

You can't know that because it is closed-source but it's irrelevant because the files are encrypted already. Cryptomator is fun because each file has its name and content encrypted separately which means that you only need to upload what changed, compared to Veracrypt that has to send everything every time. I guess Dropbox is smart enough to notice small changes and send them immediately. As a comparison, OneDrive (by Microsoft) is full of bugs and is sometimes stuck and won't sync for days unless you fix the broken mess with a specific obscure command.

Is it the minute its added to the Dropbox environment

The file is never added to Dropbox. It is added to the virtual drive of Cryptomator which encrypts everything before saving it. Then Dropbox can see that a change has happened in that file (that is encrypted but it's irrelevant to Dropbox) and it is sent whenever Dropbox wants to.

Because that would mean its unencrypted

It's like: open Cryptomator as fake drive -> drag and drop file -> it is encrypted and then saved -> Dropbox sees change -> encrypted file is sent. The file is encrypted in memory before reaching the hard drive. Storing it before would be a huge security bug.

that would mean I’d either have to leave the Vault open

I know it's a privacy community, but what's wrong with leaving the vault open in the background? On the phone the application can be protected with a PIN or a fingerprint, and on your desktop you can have a hard drive encrypted locally and a user password. It never crossed my mind to close such "small" vaults because it's only for a small number of files that you use daily. You must never rely on solutions such as Dropbox to store all your files forever.

And for the record, I do trust Cryptomator because they make Cyberduck and their code is open-source, and also because you can support them by buying a license which is useful for them to keep on working on that. In the past few years, I have never read bad things about them.

it either sounds not very secure or not very usable

It is secure because it basically encrypts AND THEN store that in a tree of files, nothing else, and so far they do it well. No plaintext file is stored. It is usable for what it is: synchronization of a lot of small files which expects that the vault stays open, but most people do that anyway, it's still secure as long as you don't give your phone to strangers.

If you need a stronger solution, use Veracrypt but you will lose the ability to use it easily and fast, and the whole blob (multiple gigabytes for me) will have to be copied every time you need to sync anything. Both usages are legitimate.

I guess because it’s dangerous and shows that the driver doesn’t care about other people.