Best Practices

A collection of wisdom and best practices. Use this after careful consideration!

• Don't backup your gocryptfs.conf file to public sources.

  See Issue 50 for reasons. In short, you should consider not saving this file in public cloud-style backups and instead make sure you have backed it up elsewhere and stored your master key (visible when you ran gocryptfs -init).

• Do backup you gocryptfs.diriv

  This file isn't secret. See Issue 37.

• Use a strong passphrase/password!

  See https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/wiki/Password-Strength for more details