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gocryptfs
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rfjakob / gocryptfs

gocryptfs

Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

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13Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
4.8KGitHub stars
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What it is

Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

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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, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2015-11-15 16:01:39 UTC to 2026-10-21 18:45:42 UTC.

01232015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

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20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110

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> A single Hetzner server should never be the only place hosting a copy of all your photos Hetzner (or any vps provider) should not be a place at all to store ANY copy of your photos, unencrypted. I agree that they respect privacy a lot, they're probably the best of all the service providers when it comes to your data and that there are data protection laws in place etc etc but in the end, it's your personal photos, I wouldn't be willing to upload it to any provider unencrypted, good that you're encrypting Also, check this out (not my project): https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
In Android users can now use conversational editing in Google Photos
I'm looking to improve my documents syncing setup. Currently I'm using owncloud, but that seems overkill for just files syncing and it requires maintenance, so I gave Syncthing a look. The "Untrusted device encryption" was not appealing to me because I'm not convinced by the security aspects yet, and also because it is in beta for now. I used gocryptfs [1] in the past and was quite happy with it, so I'm planning to use it on top of Syncthing to have files synced encrypted. As far as I have read this setup (Syncthing + gocryptfs) seems to be used by several people and has already been discussed by gocryptfs' author, who recommended a `-sharedstorage` flag for such use case [2]. Reading [3] I think gocryptfs is more suited for files syncing than cryfs. I'm aware that the metadata (file size, structure, …) of my files are not encrypted but t
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hat's a compromise I'm ready to make. I would be happy to hear about opinions about this approach. [1] https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/ [2] https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/549#issuecomment... [3] https://www.cryfs.org/comparison
In Untrusted Device Encryption
JungleDisk was backup software I used ~2009 that allowed mounting S3. They were bought by Rackspace and the product wasn't updated. Seems to be called/part of Cyberfortress now. Later I used Panic's Transmit Disk but they removed the feature. Recently I'd been looking at s3fs-fuse to use with gocryptfs but haven't actually installed it yet! https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
In Mountpoint – file client for S3 written in Rust, from AWS
It's concerning that Dropbox is scanning user data. I understand the benefits of doing that (CSAM/copyright). One of the selling points of Dropbox is offsite backup and if they can delete data at anytime then its obvious to me Dropbox is no good. I personally don't use Dropbox. But if I did I wonder if something like gocryptfs [1] can be integrated with the Dropbox folder. [1] https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
In Dropbox deletes Rick and Morty creators account for secret TOS violation
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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