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diff --git a/docs/quickstart.md b/docs/quickstart.md index 2313d6a..f91a121 100644 --- a/docs/quickstart.md +++ b/docs/quickstart.md @@ -58,3 +58,17 @@ up encrypted in the `cipher` directory. $ touch plain/test.txt $ ls cipher gocryptfs.conf gocryptfs.diriv ZSuIZVzYDy5-TbhWKY-ciA== + +Cloud Storage +------------- + +When you want to store your encrypted data on cloud storage (Dropbox in this example), +the `cipher` folder should be inside the `Dropbox` folder but the `plain` folder +should be **outside**! Example: + + $ mkdir ~/Dropbox/cipher + $ mkdir ~/plain + $ gocryptfs -init ~/Dropbox/cipher + $ gocryptfs ~/Dropbox/cipher ~/plain + +This makes sure that Dropbox only syncs the encrypted version of your data. |