Show HN: CrococryptFile 1.3 with cloaked, headerless files

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7 points·frankhissen··2 comments

The one feature that I would really like in personal file encryption tools like this is to be able to read/write the files on the fly. For example - with encfs you have 2 folders:

/encrypted

/decrypted

Whenever you write something to /decrypted it is automatically encrypted and copied to /encrypted. And /decrypted contains all the files from /encrypted but decrypted. The use case is using cloud storage such as dropbox.

Well, I understand. I'm working at encryption technologies for years now. And I have a tool that -I guess- is similar to what you search for (CrococryptFile's brother CrococryptMirror):

http://www.frankhissen.de/crococryptmirror-home-en-frank-his...

However, it is a matter of your personal philosophy or taste when it comes to privacy and cloud backups. I tried to compare the two approaches (file-by-file vs big-file encryption):

http://www.frankhissen.de/container-vs-file-by-file-encrypti...

I know both sides - there are people mailing me they prefer this or that version. And I understand both, but it really depends on your individual use case and preferences.

By the way: CrococryptMirror can show you live the unencrypted version of your files. CrococryptFile could do that as well (technically), but I don't know if I would integrate that.

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