Help me understand a few things

tomwhitaker

Hello. I've just signed up to the Free service and added Google Drive. I wish to be able to store a text file in my Google Drive, encrypted, so that even if my Google account is compromised, no-one can read the file.

I have created my Boxcryptor account with my same Google account's email address. I have created the file and can see it in Boxcryptor. I can also see it in Google Drive, but not open it in Google Drive. A file called FolderKey.bch is also present.

I would also like to be able to send a copy of the encrypted file to a friend, in case my Google account is ever deleted.

So, on to the questions...
- If my Google account was compromised, someone logged in would NOT be able to read the encrypted file, but the COULD delete it. Correct?
- If my Google account was compromised, a password reset request would NOT be able to get that person access to my Boxcryptor key. Correct?
- If my Google drive file was deleted, and I lost my phone, would I just need a copy of the file (textile.txt.bc - saved on a local hard drive, for example) and a copy of the Boxcryptor app on a replacement phone, plus my key, to reopen it? Or is the encrypted file tied to the specific installation of Boxcryptor, and/or the file location where I saved it, and/or the FolderKey.bch file?
- What happens if Boxcryptor disappears from the App Store one day?

Thank you!

JRMBXL

Hello, have you good understood this ? I thing that google drive is like google docs, but I'm not shure. I wait the answers of specialist..

Boxcryptor is not designed to secure arbitrary cloud services. Services such as Google Docs or Evernote do not work with locally stored files, but store the data directly in databases on their servers. Boxcryptor can only encrypt files – your files that you store in your cloud – not services.