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Is there a tool to real-time encrypt folders? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm looking for a veracrypt/truecrypt equivalent but at the folder-level and dynamic sizing

Something like a tool which could encrypt folders in real-time and then be able to lock it up. Truecrypt expects me to provide a size for it, I'd like something more dynamically sizeable based on the files I store in it.

Even just a tool that encrypts files written into it and converts them to other files works with me

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Tomb might fit your needs

https://dyne.org/software/tomb/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Thanks I will look into it. But tomb also seems to not have dynamic sizing

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You can increase the size of a tomb, but IIRC it's an offline process.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I think as of now I will go for it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

tomb looks like a nice wrapper around LUKS but it doesn't appear to support creating a sparse file, so, it will immediately use however much space you allocate to it.

(I think it doesn't support a sparse backing file because I searched the word "sparse" on their github, and for the word "seek" (which is the dd argument for creating a sparse file) in the tomb bash script, and both searches yielded no results.)