Description
SecureFolders is an encrypted backup management tool.
There are lots of tools available for backup management, but few take care of data encipherment; this is becoming more important as the trend is to store everything in “the cloud”, remote servers that can be accessed by administrators, hardware owners, intruders 
and government agencies.
For many years, encryption tools have been widely available in operating systems. One of them is OpenSSL, open sourced and widely available in different platforms; it provides many strong encryption options. The commercial application RAR is versatile and also built for several platforms. Altogether they can generate segmented archives highly protected that will enable us reliable storage in external facilities, with the added capability of managing the archives with widespread, almost-standard, tools. In order to synchronize files with the storage device, SecureFolders is front-end also to RSync, another common utility that keeps twin folders up to date.
SecureFolders is a "front-end", a user interface that controls the command line applications rar, openssl and rsync. Therefore, any user could open (knowing the password) the encrypted files without dependency on a single application. This fact is to the advantage of the user, because won't get trapped by a tool that ceases maintenance, or uses a unusual format, or, simply, must use the files in another machine without this front-end.
Some of its features:
- Encrypted backup, extraction and synchronization
- Profile-based management for different scenarios.
- Supports password, OSX keychain and secure certificates (PKI).
- It keeps the last modification date in archives for better updates detection
- External executable management
- File segmentation for better big file uploading
- Several strong encryption algorithms
- Archives are base64-encoded before re-compression
- Multicore architecture: launches so many compression processes as cores has the machine
- Automatic updates
- Automatic installer package
- No application lock-in
Basic usage intructions
1) Tab "Settings": Make sura RAR is installed in your system
2) Tab "Backup":
2.1) Write down a password
2.2) Select a destination folder for generated compressed files.
2.3) Select the folders you want to backup with the button "Add folders"
2.4) Push the "Backup" button
3) Tab "Extract":
3.1) Write down a password valid for the selected files.
3.2) Select a destination directory for the extracted folders.
2.3) Select the files you want to extract with the button "Add files".
2.4) Push the "Extract" button
4) Tab "Sync": choose a source folder, choose a destination folder and push the "Sync" button.
5) Push "Save" (save profiles) from time to time, in order not to lose work data.
Support and bug reporting
Please, make your support requests and send your bug reports using our forum here.
Donations
If this software is useful to you, please, make a donation to Asociacion Protectora de Animales "El Refugio" (Madrid, España) [Animal Protection Welfare Charity "The Shelter" (Madrid, Spain)] on your own behalf and also on behalf of software.team [a t] renacentist [d o t] com.
Many thanks.
(Version en Español)
Download
Download the latest version
SecureFolders.dmg
Version: 0.1.2
Date: 09-May-2010
Download size: ~1 MB
Language(s): English, Spanish
Compatibility: MacOSX 10.5 & 10.6
New features: Recommended folders
License: Freeware/Donationware
Stage: First release, Beta 1 phase
Next steps: Bug squash
Download/distribution options:
DMG disk image with Installer: SecureFolders-0.1.2-installer.dmg
DMG disk image with the application: SecureFolders-0.1.2.dmg
Zipped Application: SecureFolders-0.1.2.zip
Version: 0.1.1
Date: 02-May-2010
Download size: ~1 MB
Language(s): English, Spanish
Compatibility: MacOSX 10.5 & 10.6
New features: Multi folder syncing
License: Freeware/Donationware
Stage: First release, Beta 1 phase
Next steps: Bug squash
Download/distribution options:
DMG disk image with Installer: SecureFolders-0.1.1-installer.dmg
DMG disk image with the application: SecureFolders-0.1.1.dmg
Zipped Application: SecureFolders-0.1.1.zip
Version: 0.1.0
Date: 26-Apr-2010
Download size: ~1 MB
Language(s): English, Spanish
Compatibility: MacOSX 10.5 & 10.6
New features: (all)
License: Freeware/Donationware
Stage: First release, Beta 1 phase
Next steps: Bug squash
Download/distribution options:
DMG disk image with Installer: SecureFolders-0.1.0-installer.dmg
DMG disk image with the application: SecureFolders-0.1.0.dmg
Zipped Application: SecureFolders-0.1.0.zip
RAR - Additional download
It will be probably necessary that RAR (command line interface) is installed in your computer; it is needed by SecureFolders to work, and is not included in MacOSX by default.
This is a time limited trial version.
Click here to buy a RAR license.
Screenshots
Notes
Should you need to use the same functionalities over the terminal, you may use the following commands:
1) Compress
rar a -r -ol -o+ -m0 -t -idq folder.rar /path/to/folder
2) Encrypt
Symmetric encryption
openssl aes-256-cbc -a -salt -in folder.rar -out folder.rar.aes256cbc -pass pass:123456789
Asymmetric encryption
openssl smime -aes256 -encrypt -binary -in folder.rar -out folder.rar.smimeaes256 mycert.pem
3) Re-Compress
rar a -m5 -o+ -t -idq -ep -v10000 folder.rar.aes256cbc.rar folder.rar.aes256cbc
4) Extract
rar e -o+ -idq folder.rar.aes256cbc.rar /destination/directory/
5) Decode
Symmetric encryption
openssl aes-256-cbc -d -a -salt -in folder.rar.aes256cbc -out folder.rar
Asymmetric encryption
openssl smime -aes256 -decrypt -binary -in folder.rar.smimeaes256 -out folder.rar -inkey myprivatekey.pem mycert.pem
5) Extract again
rar x -o+ -idq folder.rar /destination/directory
6) Other
Private key and certificates check:
openssl x509 -in mycert.pem -text -noout -inform PEM
openssl rsa -in myprivatekey.pem -check -noout
Private key from protected container:
opnssl pkcs12 -in container.p12 -out privatekey.pem -nodes
