Steve Gibson, in Security Now! podcast #350 addressed this claiming: "TrueCrypt plus Dropbox is a great combo", pointing out that since TrueCrypt containers are filesystems, changes tend to be localized within that 20GB monster. Dropbox, he writes, will only upload as many 4MB blocks are needed to describe any change. So touching a single file shouldn't require the entire 20GB encrypted TrueCrypt container to be re-uploaded in its entirety.
Not sure I've done his explanation justice, so here's the link (see https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-350.htm). And, that said, I haven't tried it myself. Let us know how it goes? Mike Cavanaugh On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:38 AM, John Mort <[email protected]> wrote: > There are services that let you synchronize a limited amount of data from one > or more folders across multiple computers. Dropbox is probably the most > popular one. > > I've found one that gives me 20gb of storage, and was thinking that I might > occupy the entire space with a truecrypt file. However, it occurred to me > that this might be a bad idea, every time add or remove something from the > truecrypt file, that's going to change the entire container, requiring > another 20gb of synchronization even if I only add something like a small > text file. > > Am I understanding this correctly? Would it perhaps be better to just start > with a small container file and let it shrink or grow as needed rather than > block out the entire space up front? > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Feb 5 - Nginx > Mar 5 - March Meeting: 11th Anniversary > Apr 2 - Google App Engine
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