http://www.completelyprivatefiles.com/forum/ CompletelyPrivateFiles » Tag: SecretSync TntDrive - Recent Posts en Wed, 22 May 2013 18:57:25 +0000 http://www.completelyprivatefiles.com/forum/topic.php?id=21#post-23 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:59:57 +0000 admin 23@http://www.completelyprivatefiles.com/forum/ <p>SecretSync was designed to be simple and work between two locations, usually folders, on your hard drive. In this way, it is able to be used with your choice of synchronization service, whether Dropbox, Ubuntu One, or SugarSync.</p> <p>Now, there's another alternative. You can be your own cloud provider, by using <a href="http://getsecretsync.com">SecretSync</a> with <a href="http://tntdrive.com">TntDrive</a>.</p> <p>TntDrive is cool utility that maps a Windows drive letter to a bucket in Amazon S3. (Just FYI, S3 is the service Dropbox uses to actually store your data online.) Then, anything you put in the mapped drive is uploaded to S3. You can then map the drive from a second PC, and you have your own cloud-based file sharing.</p> <p>To add strong client-side encryption and synchronization, add SecretSync to the mix. Then you can point your <strong>destination (or tunnel folder)</strong> folder to the mapped drive, and you have DIY encrypted synchronization.</p> <p>Here's how to get started:</p> <p>TntDrive will prompt you for your Amazon S3 account, so you'll need to <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/">sign-up for one first</a>. After you've signed-up, you'll need to create a bucket. I called mine <em>secretsync</em>:</p> <p><img src="http://getsecretsync.com/ss/images/secretsync-tntdrive-fig0.png" alt="SecretSync TntDrive" /></p> <p>After that, you're ready to go. Map the drive using TntDrive. It will ask for your Amazon security credentials. Then, it will ask for your S3 account (different than the security credentials) and the bucket you've set up:</p> <p><img src="http://getsecretsync.com/ss/images/secretsync-tntdrive-fig1.png" alt="SecretSync TntDrive" /></p> <p>After you have the drive mapped, and have verified that you can save files to it successfully, <strong><a href="http://getsecretsync.com/ss/download/#windows">install SecretSync</a></strong>. When it prompts for the <strong>destination or tunnel folder</strong>, choose the mapped drive. In our case, this was drive <code>Z:\</code>.</p> <p>Then, use SecretSync as you normally would. Put a file in the <code>SecretSync</code> folder, and you'll see its encrypted version in the TntDrive:</p> <p><img src="http://getsecretsync.com/ss/images/secretsync-tntdrive-fig2.png" alt="SecretSync TntDrive" /></p> <p>There you have it. Roll-your-own secure sync. </p>