Encrypt your data automatically before syncing to cloud storage using Cryptomator

In this video, you are going to see how to encrypt your files using Cryptomator. You will also see how to restore encrypted data from the cloud storage on a different or a freshly installed OS.

Cryptomator is a free open-source zero-knowledge encryption software that enables you to encrypt your data automatically and transparently before it gets synced to a cloud storage like Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox or virtually any other cloud storage you want to use.

It places the responsibility of owning the decryption key exclusively to you only, so make sure you never lose or forget it.

Jump to:
0:57 Installation
2:15 Add a new vault
5:32 Encrypt data before sync with GDrive
7:18 Restore your encrypted data on a different computer or a freshly installed OS

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[alanslc]

So if the master key file somehow corrupted or lost, whole vault will be lost?

[hassanmaje]

How does one restore the encrypted folder (from a physical backup) in case of hard drive failure or loss of the encrypted folder from the Cloud? How do we recreate everything back - the exact environment on another PC, device, cloud...)? Does your later part of the video cover the latter question?

[TheWorldsAddress]

Thank you very much for this very clear guide!

[geoffphil]

Thanks for the video. Excellent. It us a pity that Vault locations are all listed in the left pane of Cryptomator. It would be better security to have a choice to hide Vault names and locations. One could then navigate to the Vault (step 1) and use password (step 2).
This is like having a hidden safe (e.g. behind a painting) with a private combination instead of having your safe in the middle of your lounge room.

[pxKappa]

here's the thing... can I change the default location of my windows libraries (documents, music, videos, downloads, desktop, etc) to be inside that vault by default? Basically I want a zero knowledge sync of my computer as I go (a sync/backup)...
Considering encryption with providers such as pcloud is a paid add-on and can't be used in this way anyway, I'm looking for an alternative... is this possible to do?

[cys]

Can I drag existing files on the cloud storage into the virtual/mounted vault?

[stClassGenesis]

Thanks for the guide. A question - if you want to make edits on that encrypted document in your case - and have it stay encrypted post-edit, the way to do it is to make the edit on the “My Vault”, citing your example? That’s it?

[maninabag]

Nobody seems to mention this, can this be used for local storage, say on a flash drive? And also can you use this with a flash drive on both subdued and android? Thank you!

[harlempunk]

How come your vault is showing on the left side of the Finder? Mine isn't.

Edit: Nevermind, found the solution

[domxem]

Cryptomator looks great and behaves well with “small” files but it has issues with large ones. Unfortunately

[Matt__]

Is there a possibility not to encrypt file names?

[yogeshcyr]

This obviously means I have to keep it sync with my harddrive, which defeats the purpose of storing in cloud