• Kwa@derpzilla.net
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    10 months ago

    Why the need to encrypt on Dropbox? Shouldn’t KeePass be secured enough by itself?

    • ErwinLottemann@feddit.de
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      10 months ago

      i guess because of metadata. an encrypted file has no readable header, which the keepass database file probably has so that keepass knows how it is encrypted.

      • Natanael
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        10 months ago

        KeePass don’t have much beyond a password hash for testing if you entered the right password or not.

    • 80386SX@lemmy.ml
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      10 months ago

      The Dropbox is just a remote backup container. The backup is automated , gathers files from a few locations, dumps them in an encrypted box and push them to Dropbox once a day. The encryption bit is just for some other files which are not encrypted in their natural state.