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- Wanted to announce the release of my native Windows/MacOSX port of EncFS. It's called Safe, it's free and you can get it here: http://www.getsafe.org/
- Safe forms an ecosystem with similar tools like TrueCrypt. It's not for hardcore cryptographic applications, you can't choose specific ciphers and it makes no effort to ensure plausible deniability.
- Safe's main goal is to make file system encryption easy to use and accessible to more people. It's for every day encryption i.e. a simple way to ensure reasonably private stuff is actually stored privately. Peace of mind if your laptop or external hard gets stolen, or someone hacks into your backup service. As a tool, it empowers more people to make their own cryptography decisions instead of having to rely on and trust proprietary solutions.
- Safe isn't without limitations. Think of it like the physical safe you keep in your home: burglars will have a hard time cracking it but given enough resources it's not strictly impenetrable. If you need a steel alloy vault, TrueCrypt might be closer to what you're looking for but it's not without its own set of limitations as well.
- Personally I store all my tax, legal, and medical documents in Safe. That's just me, Safe is GPL and comes with no warranty :)
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