[kwlug-disc] folder encryption

[Ronald Barnes]

Hubert Chathi wrote on 2022-10-02 06:41:

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

Those comparisons were really interesting.


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

I'm using CryFS / KDE Plasma Vault to store some data and have been 
mostly pleased with it.


It does seem to be the slowest, and GoCryptFS seems the fastest 
according to the comparisons. But, CryFS is much more cloud-friendly.


Going to give some consideration on testing GoCryptFS, thanks for the 
informative post!


rb