[00:35] <aquarius> brb
[00:36] <aquarius> re
[00:36] <aquarius> o hai silner :)
[00:36] <silner> Hello aquarius
[00:37] <aquarius> am just testing ecryptfs.
[00:38] <aquarius> I think that ought to work fine: that is, set up an Encrypted Private Directory, as per https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory, which gives you ~/Private
[00:38] <aquarius> then mark ~/.Private (note the dot) as synced with Ubuntu One.
[00:39] <aquarius> am just testing the latter part now.
[00:39] <silner> That's what we use to encrypt home right? Although I don't do that. I'm only paranoid with other people's data :)
[00:40] <aquarius> Right, ecryptfs can also encrypt your entire home folder, but I haven't thought about that for this example; that's more complex and might not work well with U1. (It might work fine, but I'm not prepared to encrypt my home folder in order to test it :))
[00:40] <silner> I don't blame you :)
[00:42] <aquarius> OK. I have created an encrypted private directory (~/Private), and I have synced its underlying encrypted folder (~/.Private) with U1, and that seems to have worked fine.
[00:43] <aquarius> yep; adding new files to Private happily syncs their encrypted versions to U1
[00:44] <aquarius> obviously, storing encrypted files in U1 means that you miss out on some of the benefits of U1 -- if those files are music, you can't stream them; publishing the files is worthless, etc -- but if you want encrypted files stored in U1, you're already prepared to miss out in that way.
[00:44] <aquarius> so, that seems fine to me.
[00:44] <silner> That's great. I'll start using that tomorrow. It'll be a lot more automatic for that purpose
[00:44] <aquarius> let me be clear: there may be weirdness here that I have not explored and might go wrong :)
[00:45] <aquarius> don't put your only copy of a critical file in this setup until you've tested it a bit :)
[00:45] <silner> I'd never seen that page you linked. It just goes to show I should read the whole of the manual :)
[00:45] <aquarius> In my opinion, this should work fine, though.
[00:46] <aquarius> I'll confirm that with verterok (U1) and dustin (ecryptfs) before writing it up :)
[00:46] <silner> I supppose I'll have to run a test. Not my usual method, but I better be careful
[00:46] <aquarius> *nod* I've often said to people "this method should work fine", but never actually tried it.
[00:46] <aquarius> so far it seems OK :)
[00:48] <aquarius> so, that was solved nice and easily :0
[00:49] <silner> Thanks for that. I'm grateful
[00:49]  * aquarius laughs
[00:49] <aquarius> not a problem.
[00:49] <silner> Truecrypt works but it's a bore to use in this context
[00:50] <silner> I have to sleep now :)
[00:50] <silner> Goodnight
[00:54] <aquarius> no worries! thanks :)
[03:16] <karni> aquarius: I can't find the bug report, but I think some file names where too long in ~/.Private (at least happened in the encrypted home variant I think) and syncing it with U1 ended up quite bad. Not sure what broke, and I can't find the bug report now, but I've read it was nasty.
[08:18] <Chase> I'm having trouble setting up a filelink with Ubuntu One. It tells me there is an error while trying to setup my account. Am I in the right spot to get help or should I be asking in the thunderbird Irc channel
[08:49] <aquarius> karni, hm, that's useful info, although worrisome that it happens at all
[08:49] <aquarius> Scourking, you are in a good spot to get help, but I'm not sure who'll be around on a Sunday morning :)
[08:49] <aquarius> Scourking, I'd help myself but I have to leave in about five minutes to drive my daughter to a dance exam...
[09:17] <Scourking> thx im in no rush
[09:17] <Scourking> getting ready to go to bed will deal with it monday
[19:06] <ScourKing> Hi I need some help with the filelink settings and Ubuntu One. I cant get it to connect and setup the account. I am not sure if I need to be asking here or in the thunderbird channel for help.