In my opinion, the recommendation to use a Nextcloud provider with E2E, or even to enable it on your own installation should be removed. I haven’t found any Nextcloud provider that actually supports E2E in my previous research. And even if you do, contacts and calendar information will still be bot…

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Oh, that makes more sense. It’s still unstable though, and when self-hosting, it makes a lot more sense to simply encrypt your installation itself.

I dont know how to feel about this. I am currently using nextcloud as a contacts and calendar sync online and store some critical files on a VPS to avoid exposing my local network directly to the internet. Looks like I will be moving the whole thing to the local network and let stuff sync at home in…

I think given how many details of your contacts and appointments are in email i doubt it make much if a difference. I personally don’t use proton for it because it doesn’t meet my needs. But if it does for you i would just use it. Unfortunately there are not many options.

Alternatives to Nextcloud for files? Only Proton Drive really, and it’s not great in its current state. For contacts and calendar through, you can use EteSync, which is end-to-end encrypted, but it costs $24 a year, unless you self-host. When self-hosting EteSync or Nextcloud, you can use tailscal…

Etesync just got removed from the website last week. Unfortunately its not being maintained. It’s a though situation. Hopefully Proton is improving soon. But its not a great situation to be so limited in options.

Is self hosting Nextcloud at home and exposing it to the internet via wireguard the only sane way to do the stuff that a VPS hosted Nextcloud can do? Specifically for cardDAV/calDAV sync and other nextcloud apps like gpodder sync?

Depends on your threat model. Can’t answer this for you. I would say normally this should be okay, but i don’t know your home circumstances, your exposure etc.

[image] ph00lt0: No it doesn’t defeat the purpose. I haven’t phrased this very well I must admit. Afaik the private key is encrypted using the passphrase. They key is kept on the server and the user decrypts this with the passphrase. This is quite a common practice. It can however lead to severa…

Hi Jos, Glad you used a disclaimer, I personally was already aware. Cool to see you here on the forum btw, most welcome! With all the respect, I must start to address a concern. The fact that you wrote the E2EE whitepaper while not being a developer or cryptographer, I am not sure how that is poss…

[image] Jos Poortvliet: (on a different note, I don’t get how one could recommend a E2EE solution that works through the web - I know there are lots of tricks these days, but still, trusting javascript coming from the server means, in my book, trusting the server. Or do Proton and Cryptee use an…

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I dont want to drive this off any further but Etesync has been removed from the recommendations.

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