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jamminontoast's avatar
Jan 18, 2018
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Encryption of shared folders for users (?) - is this possible?

Hi, i have an RN316 - for home use currently. i've search in the community and have seen a few posts on people requesting about encryption however have found very little to suggest encryption is eve...
  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Jan 19, 2018

    Whole drive encryption won't do what you want, because the system will decrypt the files on the drive before sending them over the network.

     

    If part of the idea is to automatically sync the dropbox to an encrypted folder on the NAS, then there are some caveats.  I believe the NAS can only sync to a single dropbox account.  Also, the methods suggested above all require the encryption to be done on the client PC.  It can't be done by dropbox or the NAS itself, since neither would know the encryption key.  If the NAS did know the encryption key, then the administrator could access the data.

     

    An alternative is to just tell everyone that anything they want to keep truly private needs to be stored in an encrypted zip file, using the password of their choice.  That also protects the files from dropbox hackers.  Other files that aren't sensitive could be stored in the usual way.

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