2. You must trust microsoft.
I may be wrong on this one, but if dkbit98 is as suspicious as I am, I'm sure he/she won't trust in Microsoft to "encrypt" whatever files he/she needs using their closed source algorithm. However, while I do think that VeraCrypt is still one of - if not the best - solution out there, during my research regarding this topic I found out this neat little tool - EncFS[1]. According to its GitHub page:Quote
EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs in userspace, using the FUSE library for the filesystem interface. EncFS is open source software, licensed under the LGPL.
EncFS is now over 15 years old (first release in 2003). It was written because older NFS and kernel-based encrypted filesystems such as CFS had not kept pace with Linux development. When FUSE became available, I wrote a CFS replacement for my own use and released the first version to Open Source in 2003.
EncFS encrypts individual files, by translating all requests for the virtual EncFS filesystem into the equivalent encrypted operations on the raw filesystem.
This[2] website shows how you can encrypt your files (using Dropbox as an example) in Linux but it also shows you how you can decrypt them in Windows, using encfs4win[3].EncFS is now over 15 years old (first release in 2003). It was written because older NFS and kernel-based encrypted filesystems such as CFS had not kept pace with Linux development. When FUSE became available, I wrote a CFS replacement for my own use and released the first version to Open Source in 2003.
EncFS encrypts individual files, by translating all requests for the virtual EncFS filesystem into the equivalent encrypted operations on the raw filesystem.
[1]https://github.com/vgough/encfs
[2]https://www.howtogeek.com/121737/how-to-encrypt-cloud-storage-on-linux-and-windows-with-encfs/
[3]https://github.com/jetwhiz/encfs4win
