On 2024-11-12 14:28, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2024-11-12 12:06, Daniel Bauer wrote:
Am 12.11.24 um 11:38 schrieb Bob Williams:
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(*) The problems are not only getting into the remote computer but also the privacy of the computer's owner and mine:
Let's say my friend offers me to connect a large HD, encrypted by me, to his computer for my backup and switch it on/connect to the web at agreed times - and I find a manageable way to connect via the web.
How can s/he give me access to "my" HD without giving me access to his or her data on his computer? I mean without hardening his settings to paranoid, so that other user cannot read his data, but making his daily life more complicated?
Good question. I know how to encrypt a disk, but how can I keep a disk at some other location so that he can not read it? Transport has to be encrypted. At no time can the data be clear at the external location.
Also consider that the remote friend probably doesn't use Linux, but Win or Mac. They can't handle LUKS encrypted disks and in proprietary Non- Open-Source encryption I have not the slightest trust.
No, they would have to host a little mini computer with disks, totally controlled by you. They would simply provide space, electricity and internet, not maintenance.
Alternatively, some multiplatform software that handles writing into some disk the data you send encrypted at your place.
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.5 x86_64 at Telcontar)