The cloud is a convenient place to store your files. But convenience is not always the best for your privacy. Cryptomator comes to the rescue - it was designed to solve privacy issues when saving your files to cloud storage.

If your using Google One, One Drive, Dropbox… yes, they are reading your files. At least them. There are services more privacy oriented like pCloud o Tresorit but they may be more expensive and lack some of the features that big players offer.

If you are concerned about your privacy, you can use Cryptomator. Cryptomator was designed to solve privacy issues when saving files to cloud storages. Being an open source project, there is a complete security documentation.

Some key points:

• Cryptomator provides a virtual drive (called vault) where you can add, edit and remove files as with anhy other drive
• Files are transparently encrypted and decrypted using state-of-the-art AES-256 algorithm.
• Multiplatform: works in Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
• Unlike other open source projects, cryptomator has been independently audited

But there also drawbacks. Not everything is always encrypted. Cryptomator has not been designed for that, it is especially oriented to the cloud. In particular, according to the documentation, Cryptomator does not encrypt:

• access, modification, and creation timestamp of files and folders,
• number of files and folders in a vault and in the folders, and
• size of the stored files.

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