cppcryptfs

cppcryptfs is an implementation of the gocryptfs encrypted overlay filesystem in C++ for Windows.

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cppcryptfs is an implementation of the gocryptfs encrypted overlay filesystem in C++ for Windows.

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2017	2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
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2023	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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alwyn·Oct 2, 2023

I'm a fan of gocryptfs [1]/cppcryptfs (Windows implementation) [2], they also have a fairly unbiased comparison [3] with other solutions, including CryFS. [1] https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/ [2] https://github.com/bailey27/cppcryptfs [3] https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/comparison/

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emeril·Jun 9, 2022

hmmm... I largely use https://github.com/bailey27/cppcryptfs with dropbox? This would essentially eliminate any possibility of violating any terms of service as far as I can tell? I'm not too comfortable putting any files on dropbox without some sort of encryption fwiw, I've found that cppcryptfs is one of the better implementations of that sort though most (if not all) use the same library which seems to choke on certain files once in a while

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rfjakob·Jul 21, 2016Submission

Show HN: gocryptfs, an aspiring successor to EncFS, now in v1.0

Author of gocryptfs and co-maintainer of EncFS here. gocryptfs is a FUSE overlay filesystem for Linux like EncFS. But it is written from scratch in Go, uses modern crypto and fixes the security issues of EncFS while providing equivalent speed. Some of the key differences to EncFS are: * Just one security level roughly equivalent to EncFS "paranoia" mode, at the speed of "default" mode. * A design so simple it fits on one page ( this one: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/security/ ) * Explicit filesystem creation using "gocryptfs -init". No configuration prompts. * Long file names up to 256 bytes (with zero performance impact <= 176 bytes) * Stress-tested using fuse-xfstests * No reverse mode (yet?). Sorry. I'm quite happy with how the project turned out and have released v1.0 a few days ago. If you are using EncFS, you should probably swit

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ch. * Website: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/ * Github: https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs * Binaries: https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/releases/tag/v1.0 * Comparison to other projects: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/comparison/ PS: If you are on OSX, check out this ticket: https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/15 (TLDR: seems to mostly work) PPS: If you are on Windows: cppcryptfs is a C++ re-implementation for Windows: https://github.com/bailey27/cppcryptfs . The author is very active and would sure love to see testers. PPPS: If you are wondering, the other "aspiring successors" are CryFS and securefs. Both are in the comparison table and both are worth looking at. The big difference is that they implement their own directory databases stored in files while gocryptfs relies on the underlying FS as much as possible.

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