cryfs VS dots

Compare cryfs vs dots and see what are their differences.

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cryfs

Posts with mentions or reviews of cryfs. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.
  • Syncthing: Untrusted Device Encryption
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Dec 2023
    I know that cryfs[1] is resilient to at least the first of these, and possibly the second as well. I don't know if cryfs allows to modify the base directory while the filesystem is online, if it does then it might already be a better solution for syncthing, if you only care about Linux.

    On the flip side syncthing could incorporate cryfs's base directory format instead of their home-grown one.

    [1] https://www.cryfs.org/

  • Neon Vaults: Can't Mount My Vault Any More
    1 project | /r/kde | 8 Nov 2023
    When I tried cryfs mounting via file system, cryfs told me there was no vault at my vault directory. It says specifically, "Could not find base directory. Do you want to create it?"
  • How do I Password-Protect a single folder?
    1 project | /r/archlinux | 1 Jul 2023
    you have a couple options. if you’re using ext4, fscrypt might be your best bet. if not, a FUSE-based encryption option is probably your only option. ecryptfs, gocryptfs and encfs are good, but i personally prefer cryfs. it doesn’t have an archwiki page, but can be installed from the repos and instructions for use can be found on its webpage
  • How much storage can I get on gmail?
    4 projects | /r/GMail | 3 Jun 2023
    Cryfs encryption for future Cloud Storage = https://www.cryfs.org/
  • File-by-file encryption tool? (Cryptomator alternative)
    2 projects | /r/privacy | 30 Apr 2023
    It sounds like cryfs might be helpful for this. It stores an encrypted directory in the cloud but mounts the decrypted contents locally on your hard drive so you can work with them. I'm still looking into it myself but it appears to have been designed to let people use cloud storage without ever revealing the contents to the provider.
  • Vaults vs. Cryptomator? Security, Cloud syncing, integration?
    2 projects | /r/kde | 30 Mar 2023
    See https://github.com/cryfs/cryfs/issues/335
  • Encrypt Folder or Files before uploading to Cloud
    2 projects | /r/privacy | 7 Jan 2023
  • Veracrypt and alternatives.
    1 project | /r/homelab | 17 Nov 2022
    CryFS - Intended to replace eCryptfs and fscrypt (which you can also look at if CryFS doesn't work for you) and add improvements. Unlike LUKS and veracrypt, you don't have to allocate the space in advance; as you add more data it just has more files containing the encrypted data. It is also intended to work with cloud sync things like Dropbox. So I expect you should also be able to store it in an NFS or samba share and then mount it so the encryption happens locally and the server never sees the unencrypted data. If you use KDE, the "vaults" program provides a good UI. Details at https://www.cryfs.org/
  • Can I upload 300gb file in my proton drive account ?
    1 project | /r/ProtonMail | 5 Nov 2022
    Instead of large containers, perhaps use something like CryFS so the uploads are not as large? See https://www.cryfs.org/
  • Piratas publicam dados de 1,5 milhões de clientes e dizem ter acesso remoto a sistemas da TAP
    1 project | /r/portugal | 20 Sep 2022
    Exemplo: https://www.cryfs.org/

dots

Posts with mentions or reviews of dots. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-12.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cryfs and dots you can also consider the following projects:

gocryptfs - Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go

GNU Stow - GNU Stow - mirror of savannah git repository occasionally with more bleeding-edge branches

encfs - EncFS: an Encrypted Filesystem for FUSE.

Cryptomator - Multi-platform transparent client-side encryption of your files in the cloud

securefs - Filesystem in userspace (FUSE) with transparent authenticated encryption

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Nextcloud - ☁️ Nextcloud server, a safe home for all your data

dwarfs - A fast high compression read-only file system for Linux, Windows and macOS

DroidFS - Encrypted overlay filesystems implementation for Android. Also available on gitea: https://forge.chapril.org/hardcoresushi/DroidFS

apfs-fuse - FUSE driver for APFS (Apple File System)

loggedfs - LoggedFS - Filesystem monitoring with Fuse