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for the storage of critical or confidential data. Should you lose your NAS you still needn’t worry
about your data leaking out and falling into the wrong hands.
Convert to the new ASUSTOR encryption mechanism: This option will only appear under
“Edit” for encrypted folders that have been encrypted using ASUSTOR’s previous encryption
mechanism. Converting to the new encryption mechanism will require extra volume space in order
to temporarily store all the files originally in the folder. This required space is the total capacity of
all the files in the shared folder.
Export/import encrypted key: Selecting “Export encrypted key” will download the encrypted
key to your computer. When you need to mount an encrypted folder, you can select “Enter
Password” or “Import encrypted key” to mount the shared folder and begin accessing it.
Reminder: You can choose to enable or disable encryption for folders even after they have
been created. Encryption is available for use with all shared folders and is not just limited to
system default folders. The access speed for encrypted folders will normally be slower than
for unencrypted folders.
Warning:
1. When choosing to use encrypted shared folders, please make it a point to remember your
password. Should you forget your password, the data in the shared folder will become
unrecoverable.
2. Older versions of ADM are unable to read the contents of shared folder encrypted using
the new encryption mechanism introduced in ADM 2.4.0. If you wish to downgrade your
firmware to 2.3.1 or an older version, please first decrypt any shared folders that have
been encrypted using the new encryption mechanism before you begin downgrading.
NFS Privileges: Here you can set NFS privileges for individual folders after first enabling NFS
service.