# Early Testing for Untrusted (Encrypted) Devices
**URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [November 13, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873 "2020-11-13T12:37:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@tomasz86](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/tomasz86)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2021, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873/45 "2021-03-13T16:19:30Z")
Should Versioning be allowed in Receive Encrypted folders?
I would personally lean towards having it completely disabled (as it is the case with Ignore Patterns), because restoring files with encrypted names that we don’t know (or shouldn’t know) what they are doesn’t really make much sense.
Is there a potential use case for it?
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### Author:  [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2021, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873/46 "2021-03-13T16:22:39Z")
It’s not obviously impossible for there to be a use case. The versioned files could still be decrypted by a tool. (I don’t off hand remember whether the built in decryptor looks in unexpected directories, but it could.)
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### Author:  [@trymeout](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/trymeout)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2021, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873/47 "2021-03-13T19:31:12Z")
This is amazing, I cannot wait for this to be released and to see Syncthing cloud storage providers pop up using this.
Will the web client allow for you to browse your encrypted syncthing folders and be able to manage files in the web client?
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2021, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873/48 "2021-03-17T20:29:17Z")
A post was split to a new topic: [How to restore/decrypt an encrypted/untrusted folder?](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/how-to-restore-decrypt-an-encrypted-untrusted-folder/16520)
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 5:49pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873/49 "2021-03-20T17:49:50Z")
2 posts were split to a new topic: [Problem adding second trusted device connected to untrusted device](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/problem-adding-second-trusted-device-connected-to-untrusted-device/16538)
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873/50 "2021-03-20T17:51:40Z")
I am closing this topic as it was meant (and used) for early testing. Changes have been made since and a new announcement with a call for testing has been made: [Testing Untrusted (Encrypted) Devices](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/testing-untrusted-encrypted-devices/16470)
If you have questions/problems, please open a new topic for that.
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### Author:  [@imsodin](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/imsodin)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2021, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/early-testing-for-untrusted-encrypted-devices/15873/51 "2021-03-20T17:51:46Z")
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