cloud storage encryption (sshfs, encfs, truecrypt)

[bocaj-brief]

When using cloud storage service files should be encrypted. What do you think is the best?

Probably to have ssh-access and mount the cloud storage drive using sshfs is the best way. But unless you host the cloud storage yourself you won't have ssh access. So what can be recommended?

Trucrypt? Not free software, and as it is using a container only one person or device can work on a container at the same time.

Encfs is running really smooth for me on lubuntu, but hasn't been updated for more than 2 and a half years, what makes me feel suspicious. (http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/info/crypto/encfs.hints http://www.arg0.net/encfs)

Any other ideas? Reccomendations?

Thanks for the great work so far!

[nylira]

EncFS is being discussed on #605.

TrueCrypt's license is problematic: https://tails.boum.org/doc/encryption_and_privacy/truecrypt/index.en.html

[tmikaeld]

I'm surprised that no one have made a fork of encfs yet - especially since it seems to be the only directory encryption capable software in existence that is open source.

[jinformatique]

What about Tomb?
http://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/

Tomb aims to be an 100% free and open source system for easy encryption and backup of personal files, written in code that is easy to review and links commonly shared components.
Tomb generates encrypted storage files to be opened and closed using their associated keyfiles, which are also protected with a password chosen by the user.
A tomb is like a locked folder that can be safely transported and hidden in a filesystem; its keys can be kept separate, for instance keeping the tomb file on your computer harddisk and the key files on a USB stick.

[jinformatique]

How do I add a pull request for Tomb in File Storage section?

[tmikaeld]

Tomb looks nice, but i guess it works like truecrypt where it's container based?

This would never work for thin clients where you can't "mount" such a large file over the net.

[Cathryne]

@juanito003 After forking, just edit the index.html in your fork, then go to https://github.com/juanito003/prism-break/compare

[lukateras]

This issue has been resolved, TrueCrypt is dead and we don't include any proprietary software, encfs is now listed. sshfs is just a FUSE filesystem to mount remote drive via ssh, so not storage encryption at all.

Safe to close.