FOSS file/folder encryptor INSTALLABLE by a lowly ancient HW guy

Hi folks,

Reading a bunch of posts, I have the sense I’m easily outside of my depth but I’m hoping an answer can be located here.

My mission: see topic… immediate need is MacOS and android… to that I hope to add linux soon, and soon after that put a more secure OS on my family’s android phones… leaning toward graphene or iode at this point, so hopefully to also run on which ever I end up with too.

Context: I just want to use a simple but secure encryptor, but I find the installation instructions… such that what I think are installation instructions… seem to bear no resemblence at all to things I’ve called installation methods since the 70’s. It appears we’re expected to compile/link or whatever the new words are for that stuff and seriously… not something I’ve touched in forever. I doubt I’ll live long enough to succeed at that.

SSE seemed to fit but trying to install it… to just UNDERSTAND installing it… but nothing I read for that seemed like something I was willing to get into. My model… you download something… click on it… poof… it installs. Heck… I think our microcode authoring package for the VAX cpu I worked on fit that bill. Is there anything out there as generally effective as SSE but which a full tilt idiot can install? Thanks for any possible guidance.

RMD

see Comparison of Android-based Operating Systems

SZ… thank you sincerely. Your suggestions for android solutions gave me a few starting points, and in doing so, picked up on some other perspectives at the same time. trying to link those back to convenient/usable connection to the other platforms I’m reorganizing didn’t produce anything promising, so I’ll be abandoning encryption for the full final intended collection of tools I was building for and keeping the private things in other places.

A win nonetheless. The "comparison of AOS solutions was one of the most beautifully put together technical references I’ve seen and I’m certain will be exceedingly useful. Thanks again.

R

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