Pleasantly surprised with #CryFS after a bit of fiddling with block sizes.

https://blog.melnib.one/2025/04/17/encrypted-storage-with-cryfs/

#Cifrar archivos, como última opción: consejos para no perder #información valiosa

https://gatooscuro.xyz/cifrar-archivos-como-ultima-opcion-consejos-para-no-perder-informacion-valiosa/

#Cifrado #Seguridad #Ciberseguridad #SeguridadInformática #Privacidad #PrivacidadInformática #GNU #GNULinux #Linux #NegaciónPausible #TrueCrypt #VeraCrypt #LUKS #Backup #Backups #Resguardo #Resguardos #CopiaDeSeguridad #CopiasDeSeguridad #Kubuntu #CryFS

Okay so.
The thing is, I don't want to make a separate partition for this. A partition file works, some sort of directory encryption also works.
I tried #luks and #veracrypt and they both seem to work fine in that regard (veracrypt's GUI is a bit clunky but whatever).
And today I found out about #cryfs. Which also looks neat and fascinating and much simpler than either of the above.

@VerseAndVermin Thanks for the follow-up. I never used their cloud service (I generally prefer #gocryptfs or #cryfs encrypted volumes on providers like dropbox.

However, that does sound concerning - I'll avoid using them too - I liked that they were a very old player that was in the market since the #wordperfect days, but the times have changed.

Hopefully #freeoffice works better for you, though I've found myself liking #onlyoffice over freeoffice.

Playing around with #salt on #plantuml to write #wireframes out of boredom. Had been aware, but not really tried my hand at this stuff - it is pretty convenient.

I do have a shell script wrapper at the moment that I've been using locally to automount/unmount my #gocryptfs and #cryfs folders while storing the passwords in #kdewallet. I'd like to convert that to a #python UI (I'm not proficient in python or GUI design). Been reading up in my spare time on #qtquick #qml etc.

@cybersoldier @tuxi in the background, I generally have #signal desktop, #bitwarden , #cryfs #gocryptfs and other messaging/music apps. While these are generally not CPU intensive, they eat up a reasonable amount of RAM

I've been using #cryfs encrypted bare #git repositories to keep my personal repositories synced between my computers. It looks like the number of files/directories in cryfs impacts performance with bare repositories - a. #cryptomator crashed on Linux b. switching to #cryfs works fine on a single computer, but synchronization of the changed files giving me some issues.

I'm not very excited about switching to #encfs due to security issues, but I'm going to switch my bare repositories for now.

I have a #wishlist #sideproject to start with a cli wrapper for #cryfs that integrates with #pass / #secretservice .

Once I get that done .. UI wrapper to provide context menu and customizations visually.

#cryfs guis: #sirikali #cli
#encfs guis: #sirikali #gencfsm #cli

I prefer cryfs over encfs. Sirikali has the following nice features:

- kdewallet/gnome wallet integration
- automount/quick context menu mount/unmount functionality.

However, the UI is very clunky - context menu doesn't seem to scale (I'm using #kde ) and is tiny. Selecting #darkmode seems to mess up the settings popup

#gencfsm is simpler, but perfectly does the context menu part, which is really what I want.

..2/2

Speaking of #encryption/ #encrypted filesystems, I use the following: #cryfs #encfs (less secure, only when I have to) #cryptomator #veracrypt .

#cryptomator has cross-platfotm support, including #android (paid) and #windows (used at work).

However, it crashes handling bare git repositories for my #obsidian git upstream, so I can only use it for low traffic/file encryption.

I really like cryfs - great performance on #linux for my needs. No good UI though... 1/2...

@ricardoramos @Whar I forgot to mention the obsidian-git plugin - it provides seamless #git integration for #obsidian , including git #submodules if you use them.

Depending on how sensitive my vault is, I use GitHub, or a #cryfs #encrypted file based repository on #cloudstorage such as Dropbox.

🇫🇷 Je me tate à remplacer ma config "cloud" actuelle utilisant encfs+rsync. Particulièrement je voudrais remplacer #encfs par quelque chose de plus récent (sécurisé?), mais sans perdre en efficacité. J’ai entendu parlé de #cryptomator ou #cryfs… Quelqu’un aurait des conseils à me donner à ce propos ?

Je ne cherche pas de solution "complète" genre nextcloud ou d’autres outils e2e. En effet je transferts aussi ces fichiers sur des disques externes, d’où le besoin un peu agnostique de chiffrement.

🇬🇧 I’m looking to maybe replace my old cloud setup build around encfs+rsync. I’d like to replace #encfs by something more modern (secure?) without losing efficiency. I heard about #cryptomator or #cryfs Does anyone has any tip around this?

I’m not looking for the whole stack replacement (no need to speak about nextcloud or any other e2e tools), just the crypto part (those "bucket" are sync in a cloud, but also regularly on cold storage, hence the agnostic requirement.

#shufflecake est définitivement un des meilleurs logiciels du monde.

J'adorerais que #droidfs puisse le supporter pour le rendre disponible sur Android. Mais ça semble un peu compliqué à faire sans accès root étant donné qu'il fonctionne au niveau block-device et non au niveau file-system comme #gocryptfs ou #cryfs.

DroidFS

https://infosec.press/catsalad/droidfs

Finally gave #cryfs a try for some relatively larger files and realized that it was probably not such a good idea. The whole system slows down while accessing the encrypted directory and after about an hour of struggle (and a forced reboot), it left a "dent" on my volume. Lesson learned: use Cryfs only for smaller files.

Bonjour cher mastonoautes,

Une seconde version alpha de DroidFS est disponible 🎉

Elle apporte un support plus poussé pour #cryfs et permet de nouveau d'ouvrir des volumes sans laisser de traces.

Mais la meilleure chose reste quand même l'ajout d'un thème rose 🤩

Disponible ici: https://forge.chapril.org/hardcoresushi/DroidFS/releases

CryFs – šifrování suborů
CryFs

CryFS vytvořil Sebastian Messmer

CryFS je bezplatný a otevřený cloudový šifrovací nástroj pro bezpečné ukládání souborů. Snadno se nastavuje, běží na pozadí a funguje dobře s jakoukoli populární cloudovou službou nevyjímaje Dropbox , OneDrive, Nexctloud a iCloud.

CryFS zajišťuje, že žádná data, včetně adresářové struktury, metadat a obsahu souborů, neopustí váš počítač v nezašifro
https://arch-linux.cz/cryfs-sifrovani-suboru/
#aplikace #cryfs