Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to gocryptfs, an aspiring successor to EncFS, now in v1.0
Author of gocryptfs and co-maintainer of EncFS here. gocryptfs is a FUSE overlay filesystem for Linux like EncFS. But it is written from scratch in Go, uses modern crypto and fixes the security issues of EncFS while providing equivalent speed. Some of the key differences to EncFS are: * Just one security level roughly equivalent to EncFS "paranoia" mode, at the speed of "default" mode. * A design so simple it fits on one page ( this one: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/security/ ) * Explicit filesystem creation using "gocryptfs -init". No configuration prompts. *…
Gocryptfs is a Linux filesystem overlay that encrypts files transparently, similar to EncFS but rewritten in Go with modern cryptography. It addresses EncFS security vulnerabilities while maintaining comparable… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. gocryptfs, an aspiring successor to EncFS, now in v1.0 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Filesystem in userspace (FUSE) with transparent authenticated encryption - netheril96/securefs
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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An Asymmetric, Encrypting Filesystem for Userspace - ckennelly/asymmetricfs
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A simple, modern and secure encryption tool (and Go library) with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability. - Release age v1.0.0 🏁 · FiloSottile/age
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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rencfs▲3An encrypted file system that is mounted with FUSE on Linux.
2024 · radumarias.github.io · its alternatives →
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Enc is a CLI tool for encryption, a modern and friendly alternative to GnuPG. It is easy to use, secure by default and can encrypt and decrypt files using password or encryption keys, manage and download keys, and sign data. Our goal was to make encryption available to all engineers without the need to learn a lot of new words, concepts, and commands. It is the most beginner-friendly CLI tool for encryption, and keeping it that way is our top priority.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Encrypted filesharing through the IPFS network
2021 · sedo.com · its alternatives →
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ZeroFS serves S3-compatible buckets as POSIX filesystems over NFS and 9P, or as raw block devices over NBD. Data is compressed and encrypted before upload.
Jul 2026 · zerofs.net · its alternatives →
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gitfs went on a trip around the world, and we were there to document it: fro Italy to Sweden, from the UK to Spain, gitfs has been center stage.
2014 · presslabs.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I'm building ThirdCloud with the goal to replace Google Drive for everyone: more private, cheaper & maybe better UI/UX. So far, I've successfully implemented the main feature, which involves uploading and downloading files. Files are encrypted before being sent to IPFS network. Would like to hear your thoughts on this proof of concept.
2023 · thirdcloud.org · its alternatives →
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2014 · disk42.com · its alternatives →
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SQLite encryption at-rest is a hot requested feature of both the “default” CGo driver [1] and the transpiled alternative driver [2]. So, this is a feature I wanted to bring to my own Wasm based Go driver/bindings [3]. Open-source SQLite encryption extensions have had a troubled last few years. For whatever reason, in 2020 the (undocumented) feature that made it easy to offer page-level encryption was removed [4]. Some solutions are stuck with SQLite 3.31.1, but Ulrich Telle stepped up with a VFS approach [5]. Still, their solution seemed harder than something I'd want to maintain, as it…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We started CallFS after yet another late-night “why did the uploads vanish?” incident. Our small team had stitched together rsync, a fragile NFS mount, and an S3 bucket—none of it observable, all of it waiting to bite us. So we wrote a single-process file service in Go that: • Speaks the S3 API (so existing tooling works). • Stores hot data on local disks for speed; cold data can sit in any S3-compatible bucket. • Exposes Prometheus metrics and JSON logs by default, because “what happened?” shouldn’t be guesswork. • Ships as a ~25 MB static binary—no external deps, MIT license. Today it’s…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, We are the team behind Slik. Over the past year, we have been hacking on SlikSafe [1] a Dropbox alternative where all your data is first encrypted on your own device and then stored on decentralized storage. Some features we're most excited about are - - multi-device data sync, - auto-backups via desktop apps, - search your docs by name or contents with end-to-end encryption, - easy sharing via email, QR-code or private-link, - Password-less login using MetaMask/Phantom We leverage storage providers IPFS and Storj for global redundancy, reliability, and immutability. You can…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Block Erasure Format - An extensible, fast, and usable file utility to encode and decode interleaved erasure coded streams of data. - gbletr42/bef
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Software sandbox for storage of sensitive information in memory. - awnumar/memguard
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Direct file transfer over WebRTC. Contribute to Antonito/gfile development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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**PROTOTYPE** FreeBSD Jail/ZFS based implementation of the Application Container Specification - 3ofcoins/jetpack
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I just released go-nbd, a lightweight Go library for effortlessly creating NBD servers and clients. Its a neat tool for creating custom Linux block devices with arbitrary backends, such as a file, byte slice or what I'm planning to use it for, a tape drive. While there are a few partially abandoned projects like this out there already, this library tries to be as maintainable as possible by only implementing the most recent handshake revision and baseline functionality for both the client and the server, while still having enough support to be useful. I'd love to get your feedback :)
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Simple, auditable & elegant VPN, built with TLS mutual authentication and TUN. - twitchyliquid64/subnet
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · pachyderm-io.github.io · its alternatives →
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go-storage▲86An application-oriented unified storage layer for Golang.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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File encryption and encrypted folder and file mirroring - for local and Cloud backups. Create encrypted Cloud-Backups. Freeware based on PBKDF2.
2015 · frankhissen.de · its alternatives →
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I had this backup code working reliably for years, using local file system, vps/dedicated server, or remote storage for backup, then I finally get time to wrap README, iron few missing switches and publish. Should be production ready and reliable, so it could be useful to others. Contributors are welcome.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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