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Is there a tool to real-time encrypt folders? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a veracrypt/truecrypt equivalent but at the folder-level and dynamic sizing

Something like a tool which could encrypt folders in real-time and then be able to lock it up. Truecrypt expects me to provide a size for it, I'd like something more dynamically sizeable based on the files I store in it.

Even just a tool that encrypts files written into it and converts them to other files works with me

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Here's a table with multiple solutions and comparisons: https://www.cryfs.org/comparison

Just be aware that some solutions like gocryptfs are provided on a user-space filesystem (Fuse). This has a very low performance and most importantly if you require inotify on the decrypted data for some application then it won't be available. In short inotify is what allows apps to watch a filesystem for changes and act accordingly in real time.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Tables like this suck. They are made by one of the projects in the comparison and they include no data.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Better than nothing. :)