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Immich vs Ente ?
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this post was submitted on 06 Jul 2026
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The big difference is that ente is encrypted.
If you use FDE, Immich is also encrypted but only at rest.
By at rest you mean not in transit or something like that?
That may not be the right terminology. I men it's decrypted when booting and encrypted when it's unplugged or shut off.
The disk is still encrypted even when turned on, it's just transparently decrypted when read. I doubt Ente is any different - you store images encrypted on disk, decrypt them to be able to read them as an image, then send it re-encrypted over HTTPS.