[Feature Request] Enable Seedvault encrypted backups

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[Feature Request] Enable Seedvault encrypted backups #2251

Open PandaCoderPL opened 2 years ago

PandaCoderPL commented 2 years ago

In my opinion it would be good idea to let users backup Tusky application using Seedvault. Here you can see example of how such backup option could be implemented in privacy-respecting way. More details about it here. Thank you in advance.

charlag commented 2 years ago

HI, what content would we back up?

digitalcircuit commented 2 years ago

Suggestions:

Any Tusky preferences that are not synchronized with the account (e.g. the Preferences section versus Account Preferences)
Potentially, the added accounts and their authentication tokens

The former should be fine regardless of end-to-end, the latter you may want to restrict to end-to-end encryption only. All of it could be restricted to end-to-end only though.

(The latter appears to be part of what Google's Block store option does for you, but it's possible to limit to end-to-end only without any Google Play Services.)

charlag commented 2 years ago

I can probably understand the preferences (but, to be honest, there are few and they are device specific anyway). I don't really think that backing up auth data is a good idea but I don't have enough experience to make this assessment.

jcz1 commented 1 year ago

Hello.

SeedVault is integrated in LineageOS, GrapheneOS etc. I think it is pretty secure even for Tusky accounts.