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Sharing of Vaults
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Always be careful when sharing your vault with other people.
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When sharing your vault or working in a team, we strongly recommend using `Cryptomator Hub <https://cryptomator.org/for-teams/>`_.
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It adds access management for your vaults and allows you to unlock vaults with your own account.
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Otherwise, always be careful when sharing your vault with other people.
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In general, keep your vault password secret.
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Nobody except yourself should know the vault password.
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Only when you use a vault together with other people, they may know your vault password.
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Sharing your vault password should be reserved for very limited personal scenarios (for example, with your spouse) and is generally not advised.
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Keep in mind that other people could pass on – with or without intent – the vault password.
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Only share your vaults with people you trust.
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If you share a vault with others, do not communicate the vault password on an insecure channel.
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Tell the password in person, use encrypted email or messengers or other similar secure means.
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Are you working in a team and do not want to share vault passwords?
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Consider using `Cryptomator Hub <https://cryptomator.org/hub/>`_.
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It adds access management for your vaults and allows you to unlock vaults with your own account.
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Good Passwords
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* For each purpose, a unique password without similarities to other passwords should be used.
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If you fulfill these requirements, you quickly reach a point where remembering the passwords gets impossible.
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Thus, we recommend to use a password manager to generate and store the passwords.
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Thus, we recommend using a password manager to generate and store the passwords.
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By doing so, you only have to remember a few or a single secure password.
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Otherwise, we recommend to use at least 10 characters, ideally `use sentences instead of words <https://xkcd.com/936/>`_.
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Otherwise, we recommend using at least 10 characters, ideally `use sentences instead of words <https://xkcd.com/936/>`_.
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.. _security/best-practices/backup-strategy:
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Backup Strategy
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Cryptomator is not a backup solution.
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Its primary and only purpose is client-side encryption.
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We strongly recommend maintaining your own backup strategy.
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Even with unencrypted data, regular backups are essential.
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Most cloud storage services offer some form of backup or file revision capabilities.
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Evaluate if those available measures are sufficient for your needs or consider implementing additional backup systems.

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