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diff --git a/Best-Practices.md b/Best-Practices.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f16561a --- /dev/null +++ b/Best-Practices.md @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +A collection of wisdom and best practices. Use this after careful consideration! + +* Don't backup your `gocryptfs.conf` file to public sources. + + 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`). + +* Do backup you `gocryptfs.diriv` + + This file isn't secret. See [https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/37](Issue 37). + +* Use a strong passphrase/password! + + See https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/wiki/Password-Strength for more details
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