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SyncThing  – it is possible to set a password on a folder when it’s shared with another device so data sent will be encrypted by this password and data received will be decrypted by the same password

To do that there is a command to convert the encrypted data to plaintext on disk meaning you should only do that on a trusted device to decrypt the data run the following command pointed at the root of the encrypted folder

C:\PC_TOOLS\syncthing-windows-amd64-v1.27.6\syncthing.exe decrypt –to C:\FolderSyncThingDecrypt –password <password> C:\FolderSyncThingEncrypt

SSH tunneling or SSH port forwarding – is a method of creating an encrypted SSH connection between a client and a server machine through which services ports can be relayed

ssh -L [LOCAL_IP:]LOCAL_PORT:DESTINATION:DESTINATION_PORT [USER@]SSH_SERVER

Example

ssh -L 8000:127.0.0.1:8384 root@192.168.1.150

Local port forwarding allows you to forward a port on the local (ssh client) machine to a port on the remote (ssh server) machine, which is then forwarded to a port on the destination machine in this forwarding type the SSH client listens on a given port and tunnels any connection to that port to the specified port on the remote SSH server, which then connects to a port on the destination machine the destination machine can be the remote SSH server or any other machine