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For non-full disk I just make AES encrypted files using 7zip. Considering just about everyone has 7zip installed its actually less of a pain in the ass that yo
by drzaiusapelord 12y ago
For non-full disk I just make AES encrypted files using 7zip. Considering just about everyone has 7zip installed its actually less of a pain in the ass that you'd think.
The only downside I see is that 7zip seems to be almost abandonware at this point. The installer linked at the top of their page is almost 4 years old and there's a recent beta but they haven't moved a beta to stable in a very long time.
- Kadin 12y agoIs there a good way to mount an encrypted 7z archive as a filesystem, for interactive usage? That was the advantage of TrueCrypt, IMO. Not for FDE (I'm not a huge fan of FDE anyway), but because it created an interactive partition rather than forcing you to decrypt an entire archive to storage, work on it, and then re-encrypt the whole thing and cleanse the storage device you decrypted to. It seems like putting something together that does that (which is really decrypt-to-RAM) wouldn't be that hard, but there are like a million file encryption tools but very few ones that allow for interactivity.
- ashmud 12y agoIt looks like WinArchiver can mount 7z and other archive formats. There's not much documentation about it. It does not say if it supports mounting encrypted archives. It does not say if it supports write-access either. The 7z format is normally solid, so unless you're accessing files at the beginning of the archive, it could be pretty slow anyway.