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Amazon CloudFront vs gocryptfs

A side-by-side look at Amazon CloudFront and gocryptfs. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Amazon CloudFront

Amazon CloudFront

Online Services

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network service offered by AWS. It speeds up distribution of static and dynamic web content, like HTML, CSS, JS, media files, APIs, etc. by caching content at edge locations across the globe.

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gocryptfs

gocryptfs

Security & Privacy

gocryptfs is an open source encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go. It uses AES-256 in ciphertext stealing mode for file encryption,HMAC-SHA512 for integrity checking, and scrypt for password encryption to keep data secured on disk.

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