Best Practices

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

• Don't backup your gocryptfs.conf file to public sources unless you have a strong password.

  See Issue 50 for details.

• Do backup you gocryptfs.diriv along with all other encrypted files.

  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