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dm-crypt?

Posted Oct 28, 2005 2:25 UTC (Fri) by liamh (subscriber, #4872)
Parent article: Coming soon: eCryptfs

So what does this offer that is different from the established dm-crypt which can be used with any filesystem?

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dm-crypt?

Posted Oct 28, 2005 9:07 UTC (Fri) by Trou.fr (subscriber, #26289) [Link]

this is completely different, with dm-crypt you create the filesystem over the encryption layer. So if you backup your files to a non-secure FS, you will lose encryption.
This one handles encryption over the filesystem, file by file, so this is much more flexible.

Raphaël

and maybe not as secure

Posted Nov 3, 2005 19:59 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151) [Link]

Depending on the application it's possible, that even the cleartext filenames and sizes give away too much information.

For things like passwordmanager files, diaries and such it's obviously ok.