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submitted 9 months ago by shadowintheday2 to c/obsidianmd

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

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

There is a plugin called gpgCrypt that might do full vault encryption (no idea how well it works) but it does mention that Obsidian's cache of notes will still be unencrypted on disk.

[–] shadowintheday2 2 points 9 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