Family cloud sharing scenario

pjmair

Hi,

New user for quite impressed thus far. However, I wanted to get some advice on the best way to provision the following scenario:

My wife and I are Google Drive users - we each have 100GB Google Drive accounts. In my Google Drive, I have created a folder that I share with her and we keep family documents and pictures there to share. How do we encrypt that share? We both access it from our work laptops and personal laptops, as well as iOS devices. Do we need two BoxCryptor personal licenses and setup file/folder sharing? Could someone explain...? I'm getting lost when conceptualizing the authentication against both Google and BoxCryptor.

Thanks,

Pat

Philipp

Hi Pat,

thank you for your interest in Boxcryptor!

I would like to help you understand Boxcryptor and how to use Boxcryptor to secure and encrypt your cloud storage.

Boxcryptor provides a cilent-sided encrypted. That means your files get encrypted before they are stored within the cloud.
Within the cloud storage (Google Drive), only encrypted files are hosted.

If you want to access these files, you access these files via Boxcryptor and they get decrypted on-the-fly.

If you want to use Boxcryptor on different devices (more than two) you have to purchase Boxcryptor Unlimited Personal License in order to use more than two devices.
https://www.boxcryptor.com/en/pricing

Boxcryptor is available for all main platforms.

You can learn more about how to setup Boxcryptor here: https://support.boxcryptor.com/display/DOCEN/Boxcryptor+2.0+Documentation

If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact us any time!

Best regards from Germany,
Philipp

pjmair

Thanks Philipp,

I am using it and fully understand how it works for a single user. However, I'm still unclear how the family sharing might work. Here is the scenario in a bit more detail.

I have a Google Drive account with 100GB. In that drive I have two folders, a personal folder that is encrypted with BoxCryptor. I have a second folder called Share that I share with my wife via the Google Drive interface. The Shared folder is encrypted by me, but my wife needs to be able to add new encrypted files (that I can decrypt) and decrypt everything I've already added.

When I log in and authenticate/associate BoxCryptor with my Google credentials, everything works as expected. BoxCryptor and Google Two Step authentication successfully communicate and authenticate. If my wife signs in with BoxCryptor and tries to access the shared folder via Google Drive, how does BoxCryptor know how to decrypt the share files? Do I need to share via BoxCryptor as well as Google? Or does she have to log into BoxCryptor with my credentials?

It's a simple scenario but I feel like I'm making it complex without ability to draw a simple diagram... :)