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Android sync with encryption? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm in the process of changing my note taking from Standard Notes to Obsidian, and I am trying to figure out how I can sync notes between my laptop and Android device with the notes encrypted. I thought I had the solution by encrypting with Cryptomator and syncing the encrypted vault with Syncthing. But I realized that Cryptomator on Android does not work by mounting a new drive like it does on Linux, so Obisidian could not access the unencrypted files. So now I am not sure where to go from here.

My requirements:

Notes are synced both ways between laptop and phone
Notes are encrypted at rest
No usage of external cloud services

How do you go about syncing?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does the disk encryption of Android count as encrypted at rest? If not, I think this will be a hard requirement to meet.

That aside, I'm having good luck with Synching. I think there's a bit of a learning curve setting it up, but you don't really have to touch it once you're done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No, as I'd want it to be protected in the case someone gets a hold of the device in an unlocked state.

I found Syncthing very nice to work with, and successfully synced between my two device, so I would love to keep using it. But as it is now, I would have to sync the unencrypted files on both my devices. Not sure how it will behave if I try to sync the mounted drive on my computer, if the vault is locked.