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is there a way to encrypt obsidian vaults using either symmetric/asymmetric encryption with multiple devices?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not that I know of. Obsidian sync between multiple devices is end-to-end encrypted but it all ends up unencrypted on device. Some plugins let you encrypt sensitive information/notes (Meld Encrypt) - I haven't used it in some time but when I did it was a little finicky.

Some other options:

  • Use disk encryption on your devices.
  • Install a Linux distro in a virtual machine with encrypted home partition exclusively for running Obsidian. (It's like electron except you're bundling an operating system)
  • Use android work mode/insular to isolate Obsidian's files from other apps.
[โ€“] shadowintheday2 2 points 11 months ago

Filesystem and machine running Obsidian are already encrypted. What I needed was something that would encrypt the data at rest in the backup server, like Joplin does - e.g you can store encrypted notes inside one drive

But I think I found something that may work out better with obsidian and git:

https://github.com/StackExchange/blackbox

Ideally we would have a plugin encrypting and salting file names, but if it doesn't exist, it's something of an idea for the future

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