SiriKali works on Linux, macOS and Microsoft Windows Operating Systems

SiriKali is a Qt/C++ GUI application that manages ecryptfs, cryfs, encfs, gocryptfs, fscrypt and securefs based encrypted folders. These projects are compared here. SiriKali can also connect to ssh servers using sshfs.

Supported Backends on Linux:

Fscrypt, Securefs, Ecryptfs, Cryfs, Encfs, Gocryptfs and Sshfs.

Supported Backends on Microsoft Windows:

Cryfs, Securefs, Encfs and Sshfs.

Users of Securefs should inform SiriKali of where Securefs binary is located on the system by setting the path at: Menu->Settings->External Commands->Set Executables Search Path.

Supported Backends on macOS:

Securefs, Cryfs, Encfs and Gocryptfs.

Building SiriKali on macOS is currently a bit involving process and the steps are documented here.

Using SiriKali to connect to ssh server using sshfs:

Steps to setup SiriKali to connect to an ssh server are documented here.

Encrypted container folders have an advantage over encrypted container files like the ones that are created by zuluCrypt,TrueCrypt,VeraCrypt among other projects that use file based encrypted containers.

Advantages are:

The encrypted container folder can freely grow and shrink as files are added,removed,grow or shrink. File based encrypted containers are limited to the size of the container and the size is set when the container is created and does not change to reflect the amount of data the container is hosting.

Disadvantages are:

The encrypted container folder does not hide the space usage of its contents and an adversary can derive meaning from space usage of the encrypted container folder. File based container hides the space utilization of the volume and the only thing an adversary can see is the fixed size of the container.

More advantages/disadvantages are discussed here.

FAQ

Most frequently asked questions are answered here.

DONATIONS

Donations are accepted through: 1. Bitcoin transfers. 2. Bank transfers. 3. Western Union. 4. Mobile money transfers through services like https://www.worldremit.com among others. Send me an email through mhogomchungu at Gmail Dot coM for transfer details.

Source download link.

Latest released version is 1.4.6 and its source code can be downloaded by clicking below link.

SiriKali-1.4.6.tar.xz

There are two packages for Windows Windows, the one with an installer is here and the one without an installer(portable version) is here.

The installer is not signed and expect to get a warning from windows saying the installer is from an unknown publisher. We recommend using the installer version.

Binary packages for Linux.

Check first if SiriKali is present in your distribution’s repositories and use that version if it is. Fedora,opensuse,ubuntu and debian users can install binary packages by following instructions on this link.

Gentoo users can get SiriKali from holgersson overlay.

Arch Linux users can get SiriKali from AUR.

Where did the name come from?

“SiriKali” name is a combination of two Swahili words, “siri” and “kali”.In Swahili, “Siri” means “secret” and “kali” means “severe”. “SiriKali” can therefore loosely be translated to “top secret”.

Screenshots

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last update: Mon 14 Sep 2020 04:29:32 PM EAT