8 best alternatives to EncFS as of 2018 - Slant

GNU Privacy Guard

Top Pro

Cross-platform

GPG works on OS X, Linux, and Windows with extensive selection of wrappers. See More

Top Con

It may be hard to find a GUI frontend that suits your needs

If you decide not to use the CLI version of GPG, it may be hard to find a GPG GUI version that suits your needs simply because of the sheer number of different versions available. See More

Top Pro

Multiple types of encryption algorithms

GPG supports public key cryptography (RSA EIGamal, DSA), symmetrical key algorithms (Blowfish, AES, IDEA, etc), cryptographic hash functions (RIPEMD, SHA), and compression (ZIP, ZLIB, BZIP2). See More

Top Pro

Volume and individual file encryption

With GPG you can encrypt you whole volume or files individually. See More

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Supports paired keys

Allows for encrypted communication. See More

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Supports expiring signatures

GPG keys by default expire after a set amount of time. The amount can be changed and this feature can be turned off. See More

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Both CLI and GUI versions available

GPG can be installed as a command line tool, or you can choose between several different GUI frontends available for it. See More

Specs

Open Source:Yes

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VeraCrypt

Top Pro

Free

This project is free and users are encouraged to donate something to keep the project going. See More

Top Con

Can't create volumes on the Mac.

The password used to create the volume doesn't open the volume one minute later. VeraCrypt 1.21/FUSE 3.82/macOS 10.12.6. Recreated on 3 Macs now. Unusable. See More

Top Pro

Regular updates

Veracrypt is in active development with constant and regular updates and several external audits in the planning stages. See More

Top Con

Not plug and play

Requires some tech savvy, so some skill is required, particularly if things go wrong. In the Windows world different UEFI implementations can cause problems in one, not in others, and the solutions are not uniform between issues. For Bitlocker, Microsoft worked out issues with vendors before hand, so if Windows installs and works without bitlocker, it will likely work with it. See More

Top Pro

On-the-fly encryption

Veracrypt is an on-the-fly encryption tool. Meaning that it decrypts files only when they are needed and that the files are otherwise kept encrypted the rest of the time. See More

Top Con

The UI is not compliant with the Mac

This program does not use Mac UI standards. Nevertheless, it is acceptable. See More

Top Pro

Multiplatform

Veracrypt is supported on MacOS, Linux and Windows. See More

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Built on top of TrueCrypt

Top Pro

Several encryption cyphers supported

Supports AES, TwoFish and Serpent encryption cyphers. See More

Top Pro

Open source code

The source code is open to review. It has already had a security audit and it did well, with small problems fixed by authors within days of being reported. Its predecessor source, Truecrypt, had a detailed audit that found its capabilities sound, completed (ironically) shortly before the TC folks decided to call it quits. Anyone skeptical or curious about what it does can see how it works, at the gut level. See More

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Easy to use

It's easy to understand and use. See More

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Support for AES code in CPU

Most Intel and AMD (and possibly other) CPUs have AES specific instruction sets, so you needn't task the CPU during the en/de/crypt process when using AES, VC throughput is as if the code were in 'firmware'; you can see the effect if you choose anything but AES as your cipher. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac

Open Source:Yes

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Cryptomator

Top Pro

Free and open source

Top Con

Android version is paid

Top Pro

Transparent encryption

Top Con

Bugs with deleting of files

Sometimes files cannot be deleted and there is no working solution/fix available yet See More

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AES individual file encryption

Top Con

Current WebDAV is a buggy on Windows

The used WebDAV implemention shows wrong available capacity and has a limitation in the file size. The developers are aware of these problems and working on a better solution. See More

Top Pro

Client-side

No accounts. No backdoors. See More

Top Con

Compatible with Android versions 4.3 and up only

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Passphrase bruteforce protection (scrypt)

Top Con

Slower speeds

Encypting speeds are slower then regular uploads, larger files particularly video files often cannot complete transfer without errors. See More

Top Pro

Virtual hard drive file access

Drag and drop. See More

Top Con

No camera upload functionality

Cannot automatically back up photos on mobile devices replacing the need for Google drive or iOS fully. User then has to go and either manually select photos for upload or use cloud service and then encrypt defeating the purpose on mobile clients. See More

Top Pro

Fast encryption and decryption

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Multi-platform

Available for Windows, Mac and Linux on desktop and iOS, Android for mobile. See More

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Works with any cloud platform

Works with any cloud-based services, including Dropbox and Google Drive. See More

Specs

Open Source:Yes

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Disk Utility

Top Pro

Native OS X support

It offers the best integration, ease of use and support with OS X. See More

Top Con

Mac only

Disk Utility is available for OSX only. See More

Top Pro

Disk image and volume encryption

You can create a disk image that requires a password to mount. It can use a different filesystem than OS X, like exFAT, that can be used to move files between Windows and OS X. Additionally, you can encrypt file volumes by right-clicking and selecting encrypt. See More

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AxCrypt

Top Pro

Easy to use

Integrates with right-click menu for easy access. See More

Top Con

Windows only

AxCrypt is only available for the Windows operating system. See More

Top Pro

Self-extracting archives

AxCrypt can create encrypted archives that extract without requiring AxCrypt on the computer. So you can send a file to someone safely, they just need the password. See More

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