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====== File Encryption ====== | ====== File Encryption ====== | ||
- | The next version of WinSCP will allow your to seamlessly encrypt your files on an SFTP server using AES-256 encryption. | + | The next version of WinSCP will allow you to seamlessly encrypt your files on an SFTP server using AES-256 encryption. |
- | As part of session settings, you specify (or have WinSCP generate) an encryption key. WinSCP will then (by default) seamlessly encrypt all newly uploaded files and their names. | + | As part of session settings, you can specify (or have WinSCP generate) an encryption key. WinSCP will then (by default) seamlessly encrypt all newly uploaded files and their names. |
- | In WinSCP file panel, you will see original file names and when you download files, you will get original contents. But anyone else, who does not know the key, including a server Administrator, will see only gibberish. | + | In WinSCP file panel, you will see the original file names and when you download files, you will get original contents. But anyone else, who does not know the key, including a server Administrator, will see only gibberish. |
- | This, combines with [[task_synchronize_full|WinSCP powerful synchronization features]], allows you to use your server quota as a safe backup storage for your private data. | + | This, combined with [[task_synchronize_full|WinSCP powerful synchronization features]], allows you to use your server quota as a safe backup storage for your private data. |
- | The following images show how an encrypted folder and files show to users who knows and does not know an encryption key: | + | The following images show how an encrypted folder and files show to a user who knows the encryption key and to a user who does not know the encryption key: |
&screenshotpict(file_encryption) | &screenshotpict(file_encryption) | ||