# rfjakob/gocryptfs

> Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go on top of FUSE, inspired by EncFS and fixing its security issues. It transparently encrypts directories on disk.

- Magnitude: 2.8 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 4,652 total · +0 stars measured 2026-10-22, 04:49–07:02 UTC, ≈ 8 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Security · Language: Go · License: MIT · Created: 2015-09-06 · Last push: 2026-10-01
- GitHub: https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs · Homepage: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/ · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/rfjakob/gocryptfs

## Useful for

- Encrypt a data directory and mount it as a regular folder via FUSE
- Set up reverse mode to encrypt data before uploading to cloud storage
- Decrypt files and filenames without FUSE using gocryptfs-inspect

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-22 (UTC), 04:49–07:02: 4652 → 4652 stars (+0). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +8 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 1 per day.
- Hacker News: “gocryptfs: Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go” — 21 points, 12 h ago.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 303
- Issues and pull requests: 954
- Watchers: 54
- Average over the last week: 4 per day
- Usual pace: 1 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v2.6.1 (2025-08-10)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-23 … 2026-10-22: 1, 2, 1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 3, 0, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 0, 1, 2, 0, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 17, 0

## Hacker News

- gocryptfs: Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go — 21 points, 0 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50185640

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

## Similar by description

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   Vault is a tool for securely storing secrets, managing keys, dynamic credentials, and auditing access.
   Full card: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/hashicorp/vault.md

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Data as of 2026-10-22 07:10 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.