this machine is disabled for file encryption

This way, neither the employees of the cloud service nor anybody who hacks into the cloud service can use your files.Īlso, if someone steals your computer and the encrypted filesystem is not mounted, then the thief cannot use your files.īecause the encryption is done on a per-file basis instead of using a container file to store the data, you do not have to decide ahead of time how much encrypted storage you will need.

If the folder where the encrypted files are kept is being synced with a cloud service, then only the encrypted files with encrypted file names will be uploaded to the cloud service. Shutting down your computer automatically dismounts all cppcryptfs drive letters. The encryption and decryption are done on the fly and are transparent to applications that use the files on that virtual drive.Īfter you tell cppcryptfs to dismount the virtual drive letter, then there is no way to get at your unencrypted data unless the filesystem is re-mounted again using your password. This virtual drive letter gives you an unencrypted view of your files. When you use cppcryptfs to mount the encrypted filesystem by providing the password, then you have a new drive letter in Windows. The encrypted filesystem is protected with a password that you choose. You can use cppcryptfs to create an encrypted filesystem in a folder. It uses the Dokany driver and library to provide a virtual fileystem in user mode under Windows. Please see the statement on compatibility near the end of this document.Ĭppcrypts provides on-the-fly, at-rest and in-the-cloud encryption of files and file names in a virtual filesystem. Filesystems created with one can generally be mounted (and synced) with the other. Cppcryptfs is based on the design of gocryptfs, an encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go.Ĭppcryptfs is an implementation of the gocryptfs filesystem in C++ for Windows.

This machine is disabled for file encryption