From Newsgroup: alt.privacy.anon-server
Fritz Wuehler wrote:
On Wed 05 August 2026 11:27 pm, Anonymous wrote:
You need this: https://cryptomator.org/
No I don't.
Note: Encryption must work on a device that has no connection to the mothership, as the instant you log into a mothership, privacy is toast.
I looked up what Cryptomator does...
https://cryptomator.org/
Cryptomator is a client-side encryption tool designed to protect
your files before they ever touch cloud storage. Think of it as
putting your files inside a secure, encrypted vault that only you
can open, even if the files are stored on Google Drive, Dropbox,
OneDrive, or any other cloud service.
Apparently it runs the encryption on the client side, which, presumably, is different from *where* the various cloud services run the encryption.
Apparently it encrypts *each file*, which seems a bit odd to me.
The good news is it works on Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS.
I don't use the cloud (for the obvious privacy reasons), but if I wanted to upload something to the cloud, I'd put it in a Veracrypt container first.
However, Veracrypt is only on Windows, macOS and Linux. Not mobile phones.
Luckily, on Android, EDS Lite freeware reads the Veracrypt files.
Supposedly DroidFS does too, as does Termux + cryptsetup.
But EDS Lite works for me so I haven't tried any of those.
Since iOS can't do half of what every other operating system does, the best
I can find for my many iPads is what is listed in this recent thread.
Newsgroups: misc.phone.mobile.iphone,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.mobile.ipad
Subject: PSA: Is Keepassium the closest we can get to a free encrypted container on iOS
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:23 -0400
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Since file/folder encryption works on every platform other than iOS (it
even works on macOS, so it's not an Apple thing), it would be nice if
someone out there reading this can solve that lack of known functionality.
Q: What do you use for file/folder (not whole device!) iOS encryption?
A: ???
Note: Encryption must work on a device that has no connection to the mothership, as the instant you log into a mothership, privacy is toast.
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