Would GPG style encryption work here? Maybe something like how https://www.passwordstore.org works?
There is now a plug-in to encrypt portions of a note within Obsidian. See it here: GitHub - meld-cp/obsidian-encrypt: Hide secrets in your Obsidian.md vault or in the Community Plugins: āMeld Encryptā
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This works great for me! Its nice that the decrypt part shows a popup and keeps the data encrypted.
What would be the best way to encrypt a vault?
I wrote a little Howto here:
Might give you some inspirationā¦
And obsidian has a service as well for end-2-end encryption which I personally also consider to use as soon as my vault gets more used.
Considering encrypting a single page or part of a page it could be consider an infile encryption like they are using with eYaml, example:
obsidian has a service as well for end-2-end encryption
Wait, really? How do I enable this?
Itās the Obsidian Sync service.
See Sync: Pricing - Obsidian
Does someone work with boxcryptor on android phone ? With markor for example ?
My impression was Boxcryptor couldnāt do what I needed on Android with Markor. Would be interested to learn otherwise, if you figure it out.
I would love to selectively encrypt files and folders as well in obsidian in order to encrypt some sensitive information (wouldnāt want to have my bank account number, SSN, etc out in the open)
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Yes, selective encryption would be a brilliant addition.
2 posts were merged into an existing topic: Android app: Add option to create vault in Obsidianās app-specific directory
I hope we can easily use password to encrypt any file to protect our private info ; the folder could be a good target to encrypt ;
- Add password to folders
- Lock and unlock folders
- Change password of folders
- Remove password of folders
The encrypt file in the disk could be a zip file , that could make it easy to edit without obsidian ,and also easy to implement in different systems.
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The interface example could be something like Onenote , that is enough for me .
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Iād really like to see in-app encryption at rest that functions across platforms. No wonky workarounds, no OS dependant 3rd party solutions, and no snarky responses. Oi vey, the snarky responses! This isnāt a crazy ask, in and of itself, even if itās not possible for some reason.
Would it be applicable for all possible threat models? Of course not, but itād add a huge layer of security for most general users, upping the difficulty of malicious decryption from an āopen the text fileā level.
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Personally for me this is the most important functionality that Obsidian is missing.
1- The encryption system should not depend on external plugins, a specific OS or need complex configurations.
2- Ideally it should work with the biometric systems of smartphones (faceID and fingerprint).
3- Give the option to encrypt a whole Vault or just a folder/file.
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Is there no progressā¦?? Will there ever be an encryption function in obsidian? This is shocking to me! Obsidian is a great app and I really would like to trustfully put all my thoughts in its notes, but without ANY encryption any fraudulent app I install by accident can read and steal my most private thoughts too!!
PLEASE developers shed some light on why you didnāt include the feature and if you are planning to do so in the future.
Shure the core problem for Android users is the big fault in the OS, that itās not possible to properly manage read / write access for folders on OS level.
It seems extremely hazardous to use Obsidian with all the notes in the easily accessible storageā¦ Are you all really doing this?
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The devs reply about this multiple times in every thread.
It wonāt be added because Obsidian is a plain text editor. It works on plain text files not encrypted files.
There are many good benefits to this - other applications (including apps on mobile) can interact with the same files. I use Automate on Android to append to log notes multiple times per day, and I couldnāt do that if the notes were encrypted at rest.
There are already plenty of existing methods to encrypt your files which you can use alongside Obsidian to encrypt your vault - Cryptomator is a great one which has been mentioned in this thread.
Alternatively there are other note taking applications which do encrypt everything at rest - StandardNotes and Notesnook would be two good examples.
For further reference:
And:
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Why not have encryption natively and have the setting to turn it off or on? Users like yourself that have other third-party tools can keep encryption off.
I get there is Cryptomator, but we should have at least Password protection natiely at the folder level. Sometimes your girlfriend is using your laptop while youāre cooking dinneer together, the last thing I want is for her to read my journal notes.
The Password Protection community app works really well, but unfortunately can be turned off in the settings icon. Why not just have a login and password screen to open the app? Thereās nothing cumbersome about programming that functionality.
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Cryptomator and veracrypt are additional layer of security.
Most modern OSes already offer multi user authentication and data encryption, often with different keys for OS and each user account.
In short, protect your account with a password and create a separate account in your computer for your girlfriend and tell her to use that.
This FR remains open for future consideration.
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