cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/1034471

I have a bit of data that has to be encrypted and stored into a file so that it can be moved across file systems and possibly OSes. Disk encryption like dm-crypt and a loop device isn’t appropriate as it may not exist on another OS.

It’s been a very long time since I needed this sort of software. More than a decade ago I used TrueCrypt. I know that VeraCrypt is the current re-incarnationn of the project. Is that still the go-to software for this sort of application? Is there something else that’s popular these days?

  • ChojinDSL
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    1 year ago

    Lots of options available. You could just create a tar or zip archive and run it through gpg encryption. You could use something like duplicity which can do that for you, is cross platform and works with a lot of cloud services. Borg and restic also come to mind.