portable encypted filesystem

portable encypted filesystem

Efraim Flashner efraim at flashner.co.il
Tue Nov 17 13:04:36 IST 2015


git-annex? I know there's a Windows port but I've never set it up, and I've used it before successfully on android. Everything is encrypted on the backends using gpg and setup is pretty easy.

On Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:51:36 +0200
Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Rabin Yasharzadehe <rabin at rabin.io> wrote:
> 
> > TrueCrypt ?
> >
> just reading about it ;-)
> however it is unmaintained (should i use veracrypt ? no audit done on it,)
> and i do not need all this functionality

I believe truecrypt has some CVEs filed against it this year.

> 
> what i liked about ecryptfs is that it is the default ubuntu encryption
> (which raise my trust in it), and that it encrypts file by file rather than
> volume (which better fits to running it over dropbox or gdrive)
> 
> >
> > --
> > Rabin
> >
> > On 17 November 2015 at 11:27, Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello
> >>
> >> It is very nice to hold some data on the cloud accessible from everywhere
> >> however if i do not want the cloud to have access to it, it requires
> >> encryption
> >>
> >> i could mount gdrive, dropbox or other cloud fs localy
> >> and mount ecryptfs on it so i have transparent encryption
> >>
> >> my only problem is that it works on linux only
> >>
> >> does anyone knows a way of having a portable transparent encryption
> >> which will support linux, and windows ?
> >> (would be nice if it will also support android (even if  i can not
> >> insmod) and ios)
> >>
> >>
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