How can I protect my iCloud data with encryption?

Apple offers two options to encrypt and protect the data you store in iCloud: Standard and Advanced. This article will give you the details of the 2 options: iCloud data security overview - Apple Support.

For the Advanced encryption, read the notes 1 and 2 as they explain why the encryption keys are stored with Apple for Mail, Contacts and Calendar.

TheLittles wrote:

"How can I protect my iCloud data with encryption?: IS THERE AN EXPERT ON ICLOUD CRYPTION?"

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Exporting with Encryption:

The Old School Way:

Do you have access to a computer? One option, would be to create a folder, and then export all of to a folder. Then, compress the folder to a ZIP file. locking it with a code. Once needed, you'd decompress it, by opening the file.

If command-line file encryption is necessary, use openssl enc (carefully), or install and use age (easier to use, and harder to mess up) for data encryption.

zip (ZipCrypto) encryption is approximately terrible, best avoided, and most definitely not a scheme I would encourage.

"How can I protect my iCloud data with encryption?: IS THERE AN EXPERT ON ICLOUD CRYPTION?"

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Exporting with Encryption:

The Old School Way:

Do you have access to a computer? One option, would be to create a folder, and then export all of to a folder. Then, compress the folder to a ZIP file. locking it with a code. Once needed, you'd decompress it, by opening the file.

"If command-line file encryption is necessary, use openssl enc (carefully), or install and use age (easier to use, and harder to mess up) for data encryption. zip (ZipCrypto) encryption is approximately terrible, best avoided, and most definitely not a scheme I would encourage."

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Have access to Fines in iCloud Settings, and then tap it --it pops up from there.

More info on the foundations of iCloud security: Better Securing Your Data, and Apple Account - Apple Community

MrHoffman wrote: …zip (ZipCrypto) encryption is approximately terrible, best avoided, and most definitely not a scheme I would encourage.

Interesting. For folder level encryption on my Mac I have used Disk Utility's DMG disk image creator (File>New Image>Image from Folder) that allows encryption. I now wonder about the quality of that. And is that available on Windows? I know I've opened DMG files on PCs…

Richard.Taylor wrote:

Interesting. For folder level encryption on my Mac I have used Disk Utility's DMG disk image creator (File>New Image>Image from Folder) that allows encryption. I now wonder about the quality of that. And is that available on Windows? I know I've opened DMG files on PCs…

Apple’s DMG encryption is considered robust, with AES-128 and optionally AES-256 symmetric encryption.

The DMG encryption key can be protected with a passphrase, or with public key encryption, or both.

I’m less than familiar with accessing DMGs whether encrypted or otherwise from Windows.