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EncFS

Posted Nov 4, 2005 20:14 UTC (Fri) by gdamjan (subscriber, #33634)
Parent article: Coming soon: eCryptfs

I've been using EncFS some time now, and it's been great.

EncFS is a user-space application (works via FUSE), uses OpenSSL for the encryption so it supports all the ciphers and digest in openssl, and since Fuse is in vanilla 2.6.14 it's even easier.

How is this better?


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EncFS

Posted Nov 10, 2006 23:38 UTC (Fri) by felipe_alfaro (guest, #10677) [Link]

First of all, it's a kernel service, which will make it faster than using FUSE modules. Second, it will probably allow using different cipher algorithms/key lengths for different files. For example, it might make sense to use AES/256 for my keyring file, but AES/128 for a long confidential document.

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