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Suggestion Anonymous 11/05/15 (Thu) 06:50:23 No.1368

I recently discovered this great tool. It is similar to a system I have been working on. I would like to contribute an idea from mine for you to consider.

Instead of storing the files on disk as it does it can divide data into fixed sized chunks and encrypt those. Doing this would prevent other processes on the system from scanning the files to recognize file hashes or deduce information from file sizes. This way all the data can be stored on a shared disk drive or cloud drive and only the database needs to be stored in an encrypted container.

Anonymous 11/05/15 (Thu) 09:26:29 No.1370

This has been brought up many times and the problem with it is no matter how good of encryption an application offers the operating system will inevitably leak some information regarding your activities making the entire thing pointless. Consider fully encrypting your system or in the case of shared disk drives and cloud storage use an encrypted container format already provided by truecrypt, veracrypt, etc.

hydrus_dev ## Board Owner 11/07/15 (Sat) 19:42:22 No.1378

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This is an interesting thought, thank you.

Hydrus was originally going to do something like this–sending encrypted chunks across a p2p net to provide cloud storage, but the program has ultimately focused on more on local file management. Getting files from other people is actually fairly easy, while tagging things in a reasonable amount of time is difficult, so my programming time has focused on the latter.

And as >>1370 says, encryption is no panacea. I can encrypt files or the database, but if someone who doesn't like you has access to your hard drive via some clever spying method, you are basically screwed no matter what you do. I would still advise everyone to run generic disk encryption like truecrypt, but I think I will leave hydrus's individual files fast and unencrypted for now.

Encrypting network traffic however is something I do want to move towards. I will be experimenting with IPFS this week, and I have a long term plan to encrypt all hydrus client-server traffic.