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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by eterps on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @02:47PM (#33792299)
Love gocryptfs but it doesn't work well on Mac. securefs[1] works fine on both Linux & Mac.

[1] https://github.com/netheril96/securefs

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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by o_____________o on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @03:10PM (#33792599)
do you know what advantages that has over rclone[1], which is much more popular?

[1] https://github.com/rclone/rclone

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Re:Dropbox Acquires Boxcryptor’s Assets, to provide client-s... by eterps on Tuesday November 29, 2022 @04:11PM (#33793372)
I guess both securefs & gocryptfs are more tailored towards mounting encrypted folders locally (i.e. they don't have any support at all for cloud storage systems, that part is left to other tools).

But I guess you can do the same with rclone given that it supports encryption, mounting and the local filesystem.

I am not sure however how they compare in simultaneous read/write access by multiple users.

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