I can access data in locked vault. What am I doing wrong?

andi_rue · February 10, 2018, 2:22pm

Hi there,
I just tried out Cryptomator and installed it via PPA I’m on Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sebastian-stenzel/cryptomator
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cryptomator

Then I created a new vault on a formated fat32 hard drive.

After that I opened the folder that Cryptomator created and created a textfile inside folder d.

Without unlocking the vault I am able to do that:

Also I created a file in the unlocked vault and was able to open it when the vault was locked again. What’s going on here?

Thanks for your help…

Michael · February 10, 2018, 5:04pm

Dont open/edit/Save your files in folder d or in any folder that cryptomator has created.
Open the vault with cryptomator. You’ll notice a new WebDAV network drive. Store your files in this new drive.

After you’ve done that, youll notice new random files and folders within the folder d. These are your encrypted files.

andi_rue · February 10, 2018, 6:04pm

Now I get the concept! Thanks for the explanation. Nevertheless the drive does not show up. Clicking on “Show drive” does not do anything. I also can’t add it as a network drive manually: