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Selfhostable notes app that encrypts the files on Disk? (self.selfhosted)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by HamalaKarris to c/selfhosted

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Hey everyone! :)

I am currently looking to replace Obsidian with a self-hostable alternative (that preferably also uses Markdown - but it's not a must) but instead of storing the files directly on disk has a way to have all the files within in an encrypted vault / binary format.

Reason being I have very very sensitive data that needs to be stored (employee & medically related).

I read that Logseq used to support this feature but it has since been deprecated, some light googling didn't surface any results other than that so I would be delighted if anyone had any suggestions!

Thanks so much in advance for any and all help! :)

edit: Forgot to mention that it needs to support Linux as well as Android

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[–] HamalaKarris 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

After some more research it seems that Joplin only E2E encrypts notes at transport and not at rest[1]? e.g. it only stores plain text files on the harddrive just like Obsidian does? This sadly makes it not viable for my use case :/

[1] https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/requesting-encryption-of-local-joplin-data-at-rest-encryption/15145

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

E2e in transport is https with extra steps 😅

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No it is fully encrypted, even on the server. This topic was years old. You can read a good explanation here

[–] HamalaKarris 7 points 3 months ago

Oh thanks for the heads-up! Will look more into it then.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Thx but I was simply refering to e2e in transport 😅

[–] ARNiM 0 points 3 months ago

They do encryption at rest too. Really good notes app and it's cross platform too. Only missing a “web” client for when you want to access your notes on a computer without Joplin installed (but that defeats the purpose of the E2EE IMO)