I have a bit of data that has to be encrypted and stored into a file so that it can be moved across file systems and possibly OSes. Disk encryption like dm-crypt and a loop device isn’t appropriate as it may not exist on another OS.

It’s been a very long time since I needed this sort of software. More than a decade ago I used TrueCrypt. I know that VeraCrypt is the current re-incarnationn of the project. Is that still the go-to software for this sort of application? Is there something else that’s popular these days?

    • maino82
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      1 year ago

      Seconded. Veracrypt is great with lots of flexibility in how you can do the encryption, good documentation, support for passwords and keyfiles, the ability to mount encrypted files as drives, etc… Great software.

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    1 year ago

    I use gocryptfs, i like having both CLI for scripts and its got GUI built into KDE Plasma’s Vault feature

  • Starry Occultist@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If you’re comfortable on the command line, you can use good old GnuPG to encrypt a file. There are binaries available for Windows too.

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    1 year ago

    I personally use Cryptomator, which does on-the-fly data encryption/decryption, allowing you to mount the encrypted data as a “drive” which from the user’s perspective looks like any other data drive.

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    1 year ago

    I like securefs and use it with sirikali. It doesn’t use a single container but encrypts the files and names.