Re: [PLUG] Encrypting Sensitive Personal Information In the Cloud?

[Art Clemons <artclemons@aol.com>]

On 03/09/2014 01:32 PM, Louis Kratz wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to store tax documents encrypted in the cloud. I
> access this data once a year, but don't want to store it on site in case
> of disk failure etc etc.
>
> Does anyone do this now, and if so, what kind of services/encryption
> software do you use? I'd like something with version control, if
> possible, so I can add new year's data without the risk of corrupting
> old ones. I am looking for something a little more user-friendly than
> gpging a file and dumping it on s3.


I'm likely sort of a dinosaur, but personally I'ld create a truecrypt 
file of about 500 Mb, open it and save my data.  Then save a copy 
locally and in the cloud.  The good thing about using something like 
truecrypt is that it's almost OS independent (Android implementations 
either fail or are so clunky as to be not worth the effort) and that so 
far nobody has indicated a backdoor.  At the same time its origins are 
being questioned and there is an effort to audit the software very 
carefully.

I mention cross OS, because I've more than once only had access to some 
OS I normally don't use or avoid using but still needed access to 
something that I normally access only in Linux.

There are some downsides like the need to send the entire file to the 
cloud when you make a change to the data, but I've experienced other 
update schemes that nominally and normally work but fail at the last 
instance.  One more comment, I would never actually want to store my 
only copy of something remotely, I've had services disappear entirely 
that I thought would be around forever.


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