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Location based encryption behaviour

Hello,

we are currently testing location based encryption with Sophos SafeGuard and are experiencing some weird behaviour, maybe one of you has seen this before.

 

Our basic test setup consist of three policies

sec_HRI_sec -> encrypt with key for HR-International

sec_HRL_sec -> encrypt with key for HR_local

sec_<%USERNAME%>_sec -> encrypt with user private key

 

So far this has worked great for us and users can create encrypted folders anywhere in the currently existing folder structure, no matter if locally, on a WebDAV share or a network share. However when files are moved around we are seeing some weird behaviour that is not quite easy to explain.

 

If files are copied to any of the folders, everything is correct and the policies are applied and all files are encrypted.

If we move files, this looks a bit different.

 

Moving files from a local source folder to a destination folder on a network share:

non encrypted file -> folder with encryption policy = file will be encrypted correctly

encrypted file -> folder with different encryption policy = file will be encrypted according to the policy of the new folder

 

 

 

Moving from the network share to a different folder within the same network share:

non encrypted file -> folder with encryption policy = file is not encrypted (it states that a policy is available so)

encrypted file -> folder with different encryption policy = file is still encrypted with the previous policy

 

Is this something anyone has experienced yet? The manual way of checking everytime after moving files really crushes the transparent working aspect in this case...

 

Thank you!

Christian



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