The first time you do so, you're asked to grant the service access to your account. When you click the big, red "Create a secure document" button on the main Fogpad page, you're prompted to sign into your Google account. Password-protect the text files you store on Google Drive The rule remains: If it's really sensitive, it doesn't belong anywhere online. government may request access to it, although major Internet service providers insist they do not honor every data request a government agency makes. It would appear that if data exists anywhere on the Internet, the U.S. Last week, CNET's Declan McCullagh explained revelations by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in proceedings relating to requests by Microsoft and Google to disclose details about their interactions with government agencies. That doesn't guarantee the security of the data, however. Tresorit lets you transmit an encrypted version of the files stored in a folder on your Windows PC to the company's servers.īoth services encrypt the files on the client side, so the companies themselves are unable to decrypt the files you store on their servers. Tresorit offers 5GB of free online storage, and the company plans to release versions of the program for Macs and iOS devices.įogpad is the simpler of the two methods, but it encrypts text files only and requires that you create the file on the site. PDT the service is back online.īy contrast, the Tresorit cloud-storage service lets you download some or all of your Google Drive files, then encrypt them in the Windows-based Tresorit program as they are uploaded to your Tresorit account in the cloud. Update on August 4, 2013: The Fogpad site was unavailable for several hours today, but as of 9:30 p.m. The files are encrypted on the client PC before being uploaded automatically to your Google Drive account.
With Fogpad, you create and edit text files via a basic online word processor. I recently discovered two free services that take different approaches to online encryption.
In last May's " Free services make Gmail, Google Drive, and Google search more private," I described the BoxCryptor program that adds an encrypted folder to Google Drive.
I could have easily encrypted the files using any number of free services. That hasn't prevented me from uploading plenty of sensitive information to Google Drive, including dozens of invoices that list my address and the amount of money I was billing for, although the invoices do not include any bank-account or Social Security numbers.
I've been aware since the beginning that the thousands of files I have uploaded to the service are stored unencrypted on Google's servers. This month marks the sixth anniversary of my Google Drive account.
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