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utterances-bot commented 1 year ago

Using Your Personal Knowledge Base on an Untrusted Computer — Red's Rants

Obsidian, Logseq, and similar note taking and Personal KnowledgeBase (PKB) tools work on a local folder of files. This is fantastic, but also means youneed t...

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richban commented 1 year ago

How does git-crypt in this scenario help? The data at rest is decrypted. Anyone with access to the computer could read the files. Isn't it the case?

redstreet commented 1 year ago

A bare repo, which is encrypted at rest using git-crypt, would be stored on the hard drive, and it would be checked out and unlocked upon each boot, on a drive mounted on memory. This way, if the computer powered down and became non-functional, the unencrypted data would be in accessible. I'll clarify in the article.