Mounting volumes

How easy is it to work with encrypted containers?

AESCrypt encrypts individual files, so there’s a concept of volumes. Once you’ve linked a .aes file with AESCrypt you can doubleclick it in the file manager to decrypt it. Due to KGpg’s architecture there’s no concept of mounting volumes. To mount an encrypted volume, in all other programs, you supply a password and/or keyfile. Once mounted, an encrypted volume behaves like any other disk. The biggest advantage with EncFS is that it can be used to protect existing filesystems without block device access, such as Samba shares or cloud storage folders. It also enables offline file-based backups of encrypted files. VeraCrypt can mount volumes via its graphical interface as well as from the CLI. While mounting you can optionally mount volumes as read-only and manually specify their mountpoint

zuluCrypt stands out from the rest and includes zuluMount, a mounting tool that can mount all encrypted volumes supported by zuluCrypt, including LUKS and TrueCrypt volumes. You can also mount volumes from the main zuluCrypt program, but zuluMount has a simpler interface and is designed just for mounting and unmounting filesystems. In fact, zuluMount can mount and unmount unencrypted volumes as well and can even manage plugged-in devices. Like zuluCrypt, the zuluMount tool has a CLI interface as well. zuluMount also makes it possible to make a mount point public and share it with other users.