Question for long time TiddlyWiki users

[Reet Pandher]

Have you tried the encryption feature of the tiddlywiki?

If yes then has it been reliable for you? Reliable as in Has it caused any sort of corruption or loss of data even when you know your password? Does it work properly even when you have large amounts of data stored in it?

Thanks!

[Hubert]

Hi Reet,

I've been using TW encryption for years and it's been very reliable. I use a single-file TW for everything (currently 5.2 MB) with approx. 2k tiddlers. I'm not sure how encryption works when you use one of the other access methods (bob/node.js etc.)

I reckon it will add some overhead on startup: once you've provided your password and hit enter you'll wait longer until your TW is decrypted and loaded the larger it is and the slower your device. But for me encryption has been a critical feature since I use the single file for everything and this additional wait time is well worth it.

You may read about the encryption standard used by TiddlyWiki in the documentation. The library used by the core is called Stanford JavaScript Crypto Library.

You might also be interested in this discussion on this group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/tiddlywiki/VRGzXzxSYEA

If you're concerned about data corruption, probably the single best measure against data loss is to make frequent backups. But again, I would never expect it to happen because of encryption.

BTW, there's also a plugin allowing you to encrypt single tiddlers only, though I don't personally use that.

I hope this helps.

Enjoy!

Hubert

[s.kaczmarek]

I simply keep my bob instance in cryfs folder - that's how I handle encryption and works fine since 2 years. Still, remember about versioned backups.

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[springer]

Reet, I never had any problem, even though I regularly used encryption on pretty large projects hosted at tiddlyspot.

-Springer

[Em Heppler]

Using it daily for a few months with no issue. Then something happened a few days ago, not sure what happened, but it suddenly wouldn't accept my password.

Issue found at: https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/-50bBlRdcks

Because I'm not sure what caused this, its entirely possible that encryption with TW works perfectly and it was just a matter of something else going on with my installation.

Regardless of how you encrypt, I would highly recommend you come up with regular backup system.

[Jon]

Hi, 

as you are only asked to enter the password once, I always type the password first in a text editor to make sure I've typed it correctly and then copy & paste it into the box. Otherwise, if you encrypt the tiddler with misspelled password, you won't know what the typo was and there's a chance you won't be able to retrieve the file. Could this have happened in your case?

Regards

Jon