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[Question] Allow custom location for encfs6.xml in encfsw #59

Closed ntt4 closed 5 years ago

ntt4 commented 8 years ago

Environment

Is it possible for encfsw to load a custom encfs6.xml via a registry key or option within the GUI?

Expected behavior

  1. Open encfsw
  2. Import currently encrypted folder
  3. Allow encfsw to load to a custom encfs6.xml eg ENCFS6_CONFIG=C:\encfskeys\keyone.xml
jetwhiz commented 8 years ago

@ntt4 -- Right now this is not possible with encfsw, but I am currently working on a more modern GUI for encfs4win that will supersede encfsw.

In the meantime, I will see if I can throw something into encfsw to allow a custom encfs6.xml file to be used.

ntt4 commented 8 years ago

@jetwhiz Thanks for the reply! I'll make sure to keep an eye on the project for any updates

4llan commented 7 years ago

The only way to do this in GUI is setting a temp environment variable (ENCFS6_CONFIG) at the moment of subprocess creation.

MSDN - Changing Environment Variables

jscottdouglas commented 7 years ago

any chance of this getting added to atleast commandline? looks like this was opened a year ago, I am using rclone with this to just be able to quickly read my google cloud but what ends up happening is the xml is getting uploaded to the cloud, that's a security issue so i would like to use my config outside of the folder that i am mounting from

jetwhiz commented 7 years ago

Hi @jscottdouglas -- at least for the command line, setting the ENCFS6_CONFIG environment variable should do the trick. See the encfs manpage for more details.

I'll check this weekend on whether this is something that can be easily added to the GUI.

jetwhiz commented 7 years ago

I will try to target this functionality for the 1.11.0 release, since I am afraid of breaking something at the last minute by making these changes. I think it would definitely be useful to make the encfsw interface more powerful and flexible, though.

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amicalmant commented 2 years ago

Just a few remarks, @ntt4, since this issue is not fixed yet. My question is: why would you want to use custom locations for your encfs6.xml files? The obvious answers is: security reasons.

Personally, I have a real time backup of my encrypted folders always running and allowing synchronization across several devices. For security reasons, I excluded the XML keys from those backups. I manually backup in a separate folder copies of those XML files renamed in such way that I can easily know which encrypted folder they belong too.

As of my security concern with backups, I think this does the trick. However, your suggestion would make it easier and safer on the local file system too.