To put it simply, someone had a AMAZING idea on how to backup user.json files
http://talk.zeronetwork.bit/?Topic:1564523508_14g2gXnsZdEPShFJkGdh5W3eGXmKzqW6F8#comment_165_17zoTjVZEBUdo6uAvQvtbih7ibBMHQRsrH
^^^ RElated where the idea sparked from
Basically, we can upload our user.json in a encrypted manor, and have it seeded to everyone who does this, making it secure in the way that everything is encrypted,
related to #2076
Make a backup file public that is encrypted by a manually given password can be problematic, as a possible attacker would have unlimited number of tries on them, so brute-forcing a 6-12 character password would not be hard.
It could be possible to encrypt it using a generated password, but then you have to backup that password, so you would be almost in the same situation.
Well a generated password would be easy to backup,
Using a password manager,
And I do understand the security risks, which is why I was thinking about doing something like this
https://www.protectedtext.com
Or even this
https://itty.bitty.site/
Both securely store the info in a way that you can easily get. Back to.
But I understand the security risks involved, which Is why it would be a good idea on paper, but also slap a big fat warning that this is nor recommended and allow a user to delete their backup from the shared network. Kinda like deleting a post.
Also, personally as I stated, I just have my entire ZeroNet folder on Mega.nz for ease and security
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Make a backup file public that is encrypted by a manually given password can be problematic, as a possible attacker would have unlimited number of tries on them, so brute-forcing a 6-12 character password would not be hard.
It could be possible to encrypt it using a generated password, but then you have to backup that password, so you would be almost in the same situation.