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
Tomb might fit your needs
Thanks I will look into it. But tomb also seems to not have dynamic sizing
I’m assuming you don’t want a full disk encryption solution, but you can also use LUKS to just create an encrypted mount of any supported filesystem. You don’t need any type of standalone program to encrypt your things for you.
EncFS, CryptoFS, eCryptFS…
I use Cryptomator. Does exactly what you describe.
Just be aware you can lose your data. It is really bad with long file names and folders with a large number of files, there are multiple reports online about people losing their data. I personally have experienced this with large file names and once an entire vault that suddenly couldn’t be open.
That doesn’t help the people who lost data.
And the reports are common enough that it suggests cryptomator should consider making some interface changes.
I have used gocryptfs (https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs) in the past, it creates an overlay mount that encrypts each dir and file separately, so no need to precreate a container. There are some security downsides to this approach though so be aware of that. https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/threat_model/
