Are private Pixelfed photos encrypted? (lemmy.zip)

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I just closed my Instagram account and was about to start uploading my photos to a private account on Pixelfed.

I was just wandering if the images I upload are stored encrypted or if everything is stored as is on the server.

I couldn't see any mention of it, so I assume an instance owner could just go through everyone's photos on the server even if they're marked as private.

I tried looking through the source code to see if I could answer the question myself, but nothing is jumping out at me.

So hopefully someone with more knowledge than me can answer this question for me, thanks!

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[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 9 points 2 days ago

Meaning, you’d know it because every time you want to view the encrypted file you’d be prompted for that key (password) to continue.

Not necessarily. If you had a separate password to decrypt private images, you'd just have to enter it once at login or upon viewing the first private, encrypted photo.

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