Ask Slashdot: Keeping Cloud Data Encrypted Without Cross-Platform Pain?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @05:48AM from the thrice-distilled-optimism dept.

bromoseltzer writes: I use cloud storage to hold many gigs of personal files that I'd just as soon were not targets for casual data mining. (Google: I'm thinking of you.) I want to access them from Linux, Windows, and Android devices. I have been using encfs, which does the job for Linux fairly well (despite some well-known issues), but Windows and Android don't seem to have working clients. I really want to map a file system of encrypted files and encrypted names to a local unencrypted filesystem — the way encfs works. What solutions do Slashdot readers recommend? Ideal would be a competitive cloud storage service like Dropbox or Google Drive that provides trustworthy encryption with suitable clients. Is there anything like that?

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Keep Using EncFS by ZeroNullVoid · 2015-06-23 08:18 · Score: 3, Interesting

I recently went through this same issue.
I tried lots of alternatives, but EncFS is still the best solution out there.
The best and most reliable windows port of EncFS is Safe.
http://www.getsafe.org/
It does have some limitations, but in general it's the best solution out there.
They strive to be binary compatible with Linux EncFS and have versions for Windows and Mac.
Plus it's free and open source. (GPLv3)