I use JungleDisk to solve exactly this problem. Run Truecrypt full disk encryption on both your machines. Then install JungleDisk and setup an Amazon S3 account for it to use. Make sure you encrypt your online disk with a strong password. Then just choose which folders to sync between your machines.
Like DropBox, JungleDisk allows you to do remote backups sync folders between multiple machines, have shared network drives, and even have a public folder. But the beauty of JungleDisk is that your password is stored locally and the encryption is done locally, so all you are sending/storing to Amazon S3 is random noise. And it connects to Amazon S3 using SSL, so you're doubly safe. --- Brian On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Winterlight <[email protected]>wrote: > thanks, but isn't that Bitlocker does from within the OS... I have no idea > about how Bitlocker works.. anybody try it? > > > At 11:25 AM 2/25/2011, you wrote: > >> You could use a program along the lines of AxCrypt >> http://www.axantum.com/axcrypt/ and encrypt individual files in your >> dropbox store. >> >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:58 PM, Winterlight >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I want to use drop box to keep data on my laptop synced with my desktop. >> > Things like my contact program, schedule, and some confidential info. It >> has >> > to be encrypted in case it gets stolen. I set up a shared folder between >> > computers within Dropbox, and the used Truecrypt to create a container >> that >> > Dropbox will sync. However, the desktop leaves the container open 24/7 >> and >> > can't be synced until I unload it, and reboot.... so this is'nt going to >> > work. >> > >> > I need a different solution. Would Windows 7 Bitlocker, on both >> desktop, >> > and laptop do this by keeping the folder contents individually encrypted >> > therefor allowing Dropbox to keep everything synced in real time? Or how >> > else? thanks >> > >> > >> > >
