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cryptomator
Java2016–2026
cryptomator / cryptomator

cryptomator

Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.

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14Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
16.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

Cryptomator for Windows, macOS, and Linux: Secure client-side encryption for your cloud storage, ensuring privacy and control over your data.

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 12:54:37 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year14 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-11 06:22:28 UTC to 2026-02-25 06:24:29 UTC.

01232016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312

What Hacker News says

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Attributes are meant to be user facing, and are super useful for all the assorted info that you can use during autofill steps. I primarily use this to autofill card information with autotype. Cryptomator checks all the requirements. It is a cross platform, GPL'd, encrypted overlay filesystem which you can put anything in, not just markdown docs. Just unlock it and point your notes app to it. Lock when done. https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator
In Why the KeePass format should be based on SQLite
> - It doesn't use a structural language for the password files, so additional information like username has to be stored in the path of the password You can use multi-line passwords with the -m flag without leaking any information in the path. You can put whatever you want in the password entry, in whatever text format you want. So you can save an entry like this: areallygoodstrongpassword Username: someusername Secret API key: abc123 It's also really smart about what happens when you copy that entry to your clipboard. It will copy just the first line for easy password pasting. There's a demo of me using it to store AWS credentials in this write up: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/managing-your-passwords-on-th... > - It doesn't encrypt the paths to the passwords Yep, but the upside is you have tab complete in your terminal for accessing y
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our passwords. If you planned to put it up on github you could always encrypt the folder / file names using https://github.com/cryptomator/cryptomator or a comparable tool. I don't publish my pass fields on my public github account, so I never ran into this problem.
In Bitwarden – Open Source Password Manager

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