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With our (semi) benevolent corporate overlords in mind, are there any safe and cross platform ways to keep an encrypted container on these services?

I remember (but can't find for the life of me) an article somewhere that stated you don't want to put something like a Truecrypt volume on a service that does versioning, since the changes in the encrypted data each time you change something can be used to leak data.

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If you store simple encrypted stuff at them, then it works fine. Using OneDrive, Google Drive or anything alike to store a large(-ish), often-changing volume in a way that it does not leak information does not make sense, because the performance would be horrible then.

If it does not change often, then it does not leak much information, naturally.

I store a dynamic TrueCrypt volume on DropBox. I use a dynamic volume so that Dropbox need only upload the changed blocks from my machine. It seems to work fine.

The TrueCrypt docs warn about using a dynamic volume [1]. I'm not concerned about leaking info about which volume sectors are unused.

[1] http://andryou.com/truecrypt/docs/creating-new-volume.php

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