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Encryptionkeys Datashareconcept

Hello,

i still try to get my head around what the best solution would be to my following problem:

we want to put data on the cloud and encrypt it but we also want to share it easily with external companys.

That problem sounds not that huge since with safeguard we can initially autoencrypt everything and that is fine but the tricky part is to share it comfortable and userfriendly with external users since if i use a default key with a passphrase for encryption i've to tell the user the password and the user has to tell it the external company the password so they can use the safeguard portable app to encrypt it.

but since everything is encrypted with the key its like using one masterpassword and let it known by others.

otherwise i could just create a default key with a passphrase for default encryption and let the user create their own keys with their own passphrase (i don't know how to set this in safeguard that the user can do that) so the user has its own password but then i think i'll run into the issue that when the data is shared within the company i've to assign the key to other users or the users has to communicate the password to each other what could be a nightmare if the users need to remember a ton of passwords or otherwise the high administrative work.

So do i think right that only these two possibilities exist or does maybe someone has an idea?



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  • FormerMember
    0 FormerMember

    Hi Hohes,

    Thanks for the query, though I think this has been massively overcomplicated :)

    Why not just use a generic password for all external files in a main folder, then only share each subdirectory with the necessary company?
    Each subdirectory would only contain files for a specific company.

    That way, all clients are using the same password but they can only access the files intended for them.

  • Hi Toby,

    so you mean just creating a key with a passphrase and only sharing specific folders to the companys and everyone else can access the files since the key is set as default key and everyone has it on the keyring?

    Like

    [Key with Passphrase]

    Cloud

    External Company A

    External Company B

    External Company C

    Sounds good but i've always a bitter taste with something like that, i mean okay in the end noone can access data without known password and that the folder being shared and before they can access the folder a human error has to be done like password is carelessly thrown around, wrong share permissions or the account just got hacked.