Comment 4 for bug 809549

Hi Barry,

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Barry Warsaw <email address hidden>wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> So, I lost my encrypted $HOME yesterday because my ~/.ecryptfs/wrapped-
> passphrase file got deleted

May I ask how this happened?

> and I could not find the slip of paper I'd
> written my unwrapped passphrase on. I chatted with Dustin about it and
> he suggested that in the future I upload wrapped-passphrase to
> keyescrow.net.
>
> It occurred to me that we have a better solution: why not copy the file
> to your U1 share? Okay, you couldn't do this until your new machine is
> set up to use U1, and it would have to be opt-in because your wrapped-
> passphrase is only safe-ish. (It is encrypted with your login
> passphrase, but some folks might want stronger encryption, e.g. with
> gpg, before it was copied to U1).
>
> I mentioned this to Dustin on IRC and he actually suggested that for a
> better experience, it would be good to sync all of ~/.ecryptfs.

I've heard there were issues with syncing files to U1 with long filenames
and users even reported data loss. Have you seen the bug reports about this?

Sincerely,
Michał