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encfs4win

This is an experimental project of porting encfs to the Windows world.

Here you can find the Gitorious project.

Currently based on

• encfs 1.7.4
• openssl 1.0.0e
• Boost library 1.46.0
• RLog 1.4
• fuse4win
• Dokan library 0.6. USE ONLY 0.6 version!

The project is cross compiled with MingW or Visual C++. There is a ReadMe_Windows.txt file with information on how to compile with Visual C++.

I use it mostly with Dropbox.

Use

First time

• install required Dokan library;
• Extract executable (or compile by your own).

Every use

• open a windows command
• launch "encfs <crypt_dir> <plain_dir>" where crypt_dir is crypted directory while plain_dir is the directory where you can access not crypted files. NOTE: Windows 7 users should use a drive (like "X:") as plain_dir to avoid case sensitive problems which results in file/folder not found problems.

Using GUI instead of command line

• launch the gui program and use the tray icon menu

You can also use Ronald Moegel batch included. Some people asked if is possible to change label of drive. This is actually possible using the volname FUSE option, specifying something like encfs <crypt_dir> <plain_dir> -- -o volname=<label>

Limits and TODO

• symbolic links are not supported
• use DLLs for OpenSSL
• more options for directory creation on gui
• installer
• BUG: using remote drive as crypted folder excel seems to have problem saving
• CHECK if mount point with no-ascii work (probably not)

Thanks

Ronald Moegel for testing and hints.

Links

EncFsPlus Ruszlan (the author) ask me to post the link to its alternate GUI version. I don't know him and I didn't checked the code in any way (currently I even didn't run it) but if you want to try feel free. It's written in AutoHotKey. See the readme.