I know I could and should encrypt whole drives but I want another layer of protect specific folders when my devices are unlocked, a password. I want the folders to behave like regular folders where I can add or remove files as usual, without a clunky UX like password protected zips. I looked it up and didn’t find any straightforward solutions.
Cross platform you’re sol, I’m afraid. If there’s an option I’d like to know, too.
Usually I cover my requirements with acl in this case.
Gocryptfs
I understood op is talking about devices like an external hard drive, in which case any Linux only solution (based on fuse) won’t work for windows and similarly the easy nfs encryption option on folders wont work with Linux.
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It can work on an application layer