encfs VS Cryptomator

Directory encryption tools typically use either a userspace library (doesn't need sudo, performance overhead due to FUSE), or the Linux kernel's dm-crypt / LUKS features (needs sudo, better performance, very widely used). Tomb uses the kernel stuff. Quixand uses userspace stuff (specifically, EncFS).

Upstream development seems to have moved to github but there is no release or significant development in the last four years, and there are a bunch of innocuous-sounded pull requests unresolved.

The only encryption I'm aware of that supports network file systems is encfs. https://github.com/vgough/encfs

Install EncFS in Tails (yes, that security warning is scary)

Then someone said development has started again. Checking just now, last commit on https://github.com/vgough/encfs is May 2020, while https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs is 4 hours ago.

EncFS, CryFS and GocryptFS

You could look at EncFS (or eCryptFS) to check whether they do what you want with a YFS dataset exported via NFS.

the best way to do this is with https://cryptomator.org

Before putting anything on a cloud service I would recommend 3rd party tools, like Cryptomator, to encrypt folders and such, then upload to a cloud service.

I use Cryptomator - https://cryptomator.org

I've used countless encryption "schemes" over the years, from True/Vera-Crypt to encrypted sparse bundles/images, and none have ever really felt right.

These days i tend to use Cryptomator[0] instead. It accomplishes what none of the others could do, which is transparent encryption across devices.

With Cryptomator, i simply create a vault somewhere in the cloud, stuff data in it, and i can access it from my laptop, phone or tablet, and not think much about it. It integrates into the normal file browsing APIs, and doesn't get in the way.

Because it does "per file" encryption, it also doesn't need to download a 20-100MB chunk from the cloud before decrypting, so it's rather fast (depending on file size of course).

[0]: https://cryptomator.org/

Cryptomator's arguably the most popular encryption software for cloud storage (you can give yourself zero-knowledge encryption by using them) - it's actually what they specialize & focus on (cloud encryption). It's 100% open source and Free to use on computers. On phones I believe it's just a 1-time fee of a few bucks ($13-14, then you have it forever) - note: their iOS offering is still new, so may be a bit unpolished at the moment.

This is the solution: https://cryptomator.org/

Cryptomator. It is made for uploading files securely to cloud storage, but works locally, is easy to use, and completely free for your use case.