GpgFrontend VS Cryptomator

- GPGFrontEnd - https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend - Gpg4Win (For Windows users) - https://www.gpg4win.org/download.html - Kleopatra (For Linux users -> Best-suited for KDE users) - available in most distributions' package repositories

If there is enough text space for OpenPGP payloads (they can get quite large), you could secure your privacy by using this tool https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend and copy and paste that into Mastodon chats.

Use this https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend on top of it, then they need a $10 wrench to get the private key. This way you and only you have the private key.

In my experience, I have not seen much luck in automating GPG on the Windows platform. Instead, almost all automation is either done via GPG on Linux. GPGFrontend might be your answer, and it has seen relatively recent updates.

You can use GPG on every platform. On android, there is OpenKeyChain and on Windows you can use something like this. GPG keys can also be used to sign stuff. You can upload them to key-servers and sign files and emails with it.

If you want to digitally sign and/or encrypt messages on such a forum you can use a tool like https://github.com/saturneric/GpgFrontend

the best way to do this is with https://cryptomator.org

Before putting anything on a cloud service I would recommend 3rd party tools, like Cryptomator, to encrypt folders and such, then upload to a cloud service.

I use Cryptomator - https://cryptomator.org

I've used countless encryption "schemes" over the years, from True/Vera-Crypt to encrypted sparse bundles/images, and none have ever really felt right.

These days i tend to use Cryptomator[0] instead. It accomplishes what none of the others could do, which is transparent encryption across devices.

With Cryptomator, i simply create a vault somewhere in the cloud, stuff data in it, and i can access it from my laptop, phone or tablet, and not think much about it. It integrates into the normal file browsing APIs, and doesn't get in the way.

Because it does "per file" encryption, it also doesn't need to download a 20-100MB chunk from the cloud before decrypting, so it's rather fast (depending on file size of course).

[0]: https://cryptomator.org/

Cryptomator's arguably the most popular encryption software for cloud storage (you can give yourself zero-knowledge encryption by using them) - it's actually what they specialize & focus on (cloud encryption). It's 100% open source and Free to use on computers. On phones I believe it's just a 1-time fee of a few bucks ($13-14, then you have it forever) - note: their iOS offering is still new, so may be a bit unpolished at the moment.

This is the solution: https://cryptomator.org/

Cryptomator. It is made for uploading files securely to cloud storage, but works locally, is easy to use, and completely free for your use case.