[kwlug-disc] folder encryption

[Hubert Chathi]

I use gocryptfs.  There are other tools as well.  You can see a
comparison of them at https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/comparison/ and at
https://www.cryfs.org/comparison (written by the authors of gocryptfs
and cryfs, respectively, so may be biased).

There are also GUI frontends for some of those to make things easier,
such as https://mhogomchungu.github.io/sirikali/, or KDE Plasma Vault.

Hubert

On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 14:05:55 -0400, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> said:

> I've been using VeraCrypt to secure/hide sensitive data since it was
> known as TrueCrypt.  Lately I've found it unreliable (seizes up, loses
> connections, file corruption, etc.)  I've tried uninstall/reinstall
> and recreating the encrypted file, but it's still unreliable.

> It might be the underlying NAS that's causing the problems but I don't
> have a lot of options for moving these files elsewhere.

> So..  what do you guys recommend for natively (i.e. inside Ubuntu) for
> creating a folder then encrypting all the contents?  Is this a doable
> thing without major headaches?

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