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This question have been asked[1] but didn't exactly got a direct answer to the question. I want to encrypt my home folder in Windows 7 (c:\users\username) and decrypt it after I log in to Windows. Such feature could be found in Ubuntu and I'm simply looking for an alternative. I do not want to encrypt my whole harddrive, nor want to use TrueCrypt because I want it to be convenient for people using this computer and also protect the user folder.
Any suggestions?
Of course, you could also keep other users from seeing your files with file permissions, no? – Jamie Hanrahan – 2014-07-22T17:16:29.597
Regarding "transparently see the contents", what if the operation is "get file size". Would it get the file size of the encryption, or would it get the file size of the decrypted contents? – Pacerier – 2015-05-20T09:03:08.613
Encryption doesn't change the size of the file. Are you thinking of NTFS compression? In that case, it depends on which file size you ask for; there are two commonly available (size on disk which is in blocks, and is affected by compression, and number of bytes before EOF, which is in bytes, and not affected by compression). There are several more kept internally. – Jamie Hanrahan – 2015-05-20T15:42:53.603