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Better to encrypt documents or encrypt a container?
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<blockquote data-quote="Gnomac43" data-source="post: 1918729" data-attributes="member: 414907"><p>Hello,</p><p></p><p>I have a doubt, or at least I'd like to hear an opinion from other people.</p><p>I noticed that encrypting documents is very handy (pages, numbers etc), it auto-fills the password and I can also use the fingerprint and face recognition, wonderful!!!</p><p>The nasty part is that I need to migrate all from MS Office to the iWork suite, that's a long job and critical stuff would fail to migrate, due to the complexity etc, but let's focus on something else for now.</p><p></p><p>What happens if things go wrong with such method?</p><p></p><p>1. Is it not easier and less prone to issues encrypting a single container and save the key somewhere? No password, just key. Btw, I can't use both, password and key, at least with the tool I'm using, which is probably a good thing, Amnesia happens at some point in life <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> .</p><p>Plus, if things go wrong with one of my Apple devices, I can safely access that container from another safe machine (Linux etc).</p><p></p><p>2. In case of an attack, first the container is not always accessible unless unlocked (imagine my iPhone or MacBook hacked, or my iCloud account, an attacker wouldn't be able to understand which one is the container and what key to use, because it's not even on that cloud account and Spotlight on my MacBook is disabled, so no data indexed and no history preserved...</p><p></p><p>3. I can't encrypt the rest of the data, at least not in the way I want and not with one click, definitely it wouldn't support the face recognition or fingerprint... Not even by scripting I can reach an easy and reliable method for encryption of all the iCloud portion...</p><p></p><p>So, did I see it well or is there something that I missed?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gnomac43, post: 1918729, member: 414907"] Hello, I have a doubt, or at least I'd like to hear an opinion from other people. I noticed that encrypting documents is very handy (pages, numbers etc), it auto-fills the password and I can also use the fingerprint and face recognition, wonderful!!! The nasty part is that I need to migrate all from MS Office to the iWork suite, that's a long job and critical stuff would fail to migrate, due to the complexity etc, but let's focus on something else for now. What happens if things go wrong with such method? 1. Is it not easier and less prone to issues encrypting a single container and save the key somewhere? No password, just key. Btw, I can't use both, password and key, at least with the tool I'm using, which is probably a good thing, Amnesia happens at some point in life :D . Plus, if things go wrong with one of my Apple devices, I can safely access that container from another safe machine (Linux etc). 2. In case of an attack, first the container is not always accessible unless unlocked (imagine my iPhone or MacBook hacked, or my iCloud account, an attacker wouldn't be able to understand which one is the container and what key to use, because it's not even on that cloud account and Spotlight on my MacBook is disabled, so no data indexed and no history preserved... 3. I can't encrypt the rest of the data, at least not in the way I want and not with one click, definitely it wouldn't support the face recognition or fingerprint... Not even by scripting I can reach an easy and reliable method for encryption of all the iCloud portion... So, did I see it well or is there something that I missed? [/QUOTE]
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