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by Fnoord 2542 days ago
I use Nextcloud on Synology with WebDAV. It is encrypted on the filesystem level.

Then I use a bunch of free cloud providers (including TransIP STACK who gave 1 TB for free at some point) together with Cryptomator [1] which is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, and Cyberduck/Mountainduck also support it) Java program. The advantage of it, is it abstracts the filesystem and WebDAV. So you see the decrypted data on a separate filesystem layer, allowing all your normal applications to work. It is also FOSS and gratis.

Is it the best option? I don't know. I like the mentioned advantages. I've never used Arq, for example, but it not working on Linux and Android is a dealbreaker for me.

As for cold wallets, quoting the article:

> Offline wallets are the best way to go for storing a larger amount of cryptocurrency. I use ColdTi wallets to store multi-sig private keys. ColdTi is essentially just a slab of titanium that comes up with a punch set that can be used as a fire-proof seed backup. Very handy :)

These are useless in a case of fire.

[1] Already mentioned multiple times in other posts at the time I wrote this. https://cryptomator.org

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I just tried boxcryptor in my Ubuntu Workstation. It was burning through 40%+ CPU on all 4 cores while it is not being actively used! Don't know if it is a simple bug or just designed without an eye for resource usage.

On the other hand, I ended up learning about scrypt(written by Collin Percival, who works on FreeBSD a lot and runs Tarsnap), and restic which in layman's view appears to be a better borg.

This is really weird, what might it be doing?