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I wish BitTorrent Sync had an option to sync encrypted data with relatively "untrusted" nodes, so you could throw it up on a VPS or whatever without worrying too much about the how secure the server is.

Kind of like tarsnap or Tahoe-LAFS, but auto-syncing, etc like Dropbox.

The first open source project to give me Dropbox-like ease of use/functionality with strong encryption will win my support.



git annex assistant is slowly getting to that point. see http://git-annex.branchable.com/assistant/


I'm using BTSync with EncFS to sync encrypted data - including on some machines which don't have the encryption keys or in one case a machine which doesn't even have EncFS installed. (This is a trick which works to secure Dropbox/GDrive/SkyDrive stored data too).


A workaround is to run encfs in reverse mode, which exposes an encrypted mount point of an unencrypted path. You could then add this mount point to BTSync.

(Accidentally replied to the wrong parent.)


I put encrypted files in Dropbox using encfs. I imagine the same would work for this. It does require one tiny extra step tho. But not enough of a burden for me to care.


Remember, first I have to trust the untrusted BitTorrent® "node"...




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