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Originally Posted by stumped
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Thanks. That sounds a lot like Cryptomator, except it's $4.99 per month instead of free.
My main complaint about Cryptomator (and apparently pcloud as well, per their description of how it works) is that they natively store your data in encrypted format and provide a driver to decrypt it into a separate filesystem that you can access read/write. So you are dependent on their driver working in order to access your data (ignoring the obvious workaround to keep separate copies of your data). I would prefer a product that keeps your data main storage in its original non-encrypted format, and then provides a driver that creates an encrypted filesystem that you then sync with the cloud. In this case, if their driver failed you would still have access to your unencrypted data.
Note that this is exactly backwards from what one would want for normal system encryption. In the normal system encryption case you want the primary storage to be fully encrypted. But we are talking specifically about "cloud upload encryption" here, which at least for me, is a different animal. There is also an element of trust involved - there are many long standing and thoroughly tested system encryption offerings. But these cloud-specific offerings are rather new and unproven IMHO, thus I'd prefer them to use the safer primary storage method of un-encrypted.