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+A collection of wisdom and best practices. Use this after careful consideration!
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+* Don't backup your `gocryptfs.conf` file to public sources.
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+ See [https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/50](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`).
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+* Do backup you `gocryptfs.diriv`
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+ This file isn't secret. See [https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/37](Issue 37).
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+* Use a strong passphrase/password!
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+ See https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/wiki/Password-Strength for more details \ No newline at end of file