With Cryptomator, the key to your data is in your hands. The application encrypts your data quickly and easily before uploading it to your favorite cloud service.
Cryptomator is a simple tool for your digital self-defense. It allows you to protect the data you send to the cloud yourself and regardless of the encryption it offers the service you are using.
Most providers cloud they only encrypt your data when you upload it or have the keys to decrypt it if it is stored encrypted. These keys can be stolen, copied or used for purposes you won't like. Here comes the Cryptomator app, so that only you have the key to them data you.
Cryptomator lets you access your files from all the devices you have.
How does it protect your data?
Cryptomator technology uses the latest encryption standards and encrypts both files and filenames with AES 256 bit.
To get started with Cryptomator, enter a password for the vault folder in your cloud. That was all. You do not need a complicated process to generate keys and a bunch settings.
To access the vault, simply use the same password. The folder will open. It is a virtual encrypted drive on which you can move and store your data, just as you would a USB stick. Each time you save something to this disk, Cryptomator will automatically encrypt the data.
The encryption technology it uses, as we mentioned above, is AES at 256 bits. So if someone looks at your cloud folder, they won't be able to figure out what you've stored since it's encrypted except from the data, and the file names.
Is it safe and reliable?
The developers state that there are no backdoors, expiration date and that the application is open source.
This means that you should not blindly trust Cryptomator, as it is open source software. For you as a user, it may not mean anything, but those who know can read every line of code to see how the application behaves.
So in addition to independent security checks, the software is constantly and publicly tested in an automated way.
