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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