[Discuss] NAS Folder Encryption

Chris P. OConnell omegahalo at gmail.com
Fri Apr 24 06:30:20 EDT 2015


You can encrypt a VHD file and mount it as needed right through Windows 7
or 8.  I have done this a few times and it works well.  Pretty easy and
reliable.  You can even increase the encryption key size on Bitlocker if
you want.
On Apr 23, 2015 8:02 PM, "Eric Chadbourne" <eric.chadbourne at icloud.com>
wrote:

> I don’t know the answer but often it is a simple one.  I recently just
> changed how I backup my personal files.  It took me a month to figure out a
> solution that is satisfactory and it’s dead simple.  YMMV.
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> Eric Chadbourne
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> > On Apr 23, 2015, at 4:04 PM, aldo albanese <aldo_albanese at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
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> > I would like an opinion from you.  Suggestions are highly appreciated.
> I have a QNAP NAS T421, currently I have only Multimedia files and other
> not critical financial info.  Since I have RAID and plenty of space, I
> would like to store sensitive info on it but I worry that a hacker could
> eventually penetrate in the system.  I originally was thinking to create a
> user with the wan access only and one other user for lan access but of
> course that will not work since the lan user will also have access to the
> wan.  I'm reading about SSL, VPN you name it, still think they are ok but
> not that perfect.  Then I started thinking about a folder encryption and
> store these documents there.  I know Truecrypt is not longer a solution,
> what do you think you would do, i.e. bestcrypt, not store sensitive info
> there at all, use other ways that I did not mention here.
> > Thanks,Aldo
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