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# EncFS - an Encrypted Filesystem
## About
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 10 years old (first release in 2003). It came about because
older NFS-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.
As with most encrypted filesystems, Encfs was meant to provide security against
off-line attacks; ie your notebook or backups fall into the wrong hands, etc.
EncFS encrypts individual files, by translating all requests for the virtual
EncFS filesystem into the equivalent encrypted operations on the raw
filesystem.
## Status
Over the last 10 years, a number of good alternatives have grown up. Computing
power has increased to the point where it is reasonable to encrypt the entire
filesystem of personal computers (and even mobile phones!). On Linux, ecryptfs
provides a nice dynamically mountable encrypted home directory, and is well
integrated in distributions I use, such as Ubuntu.
This is the development branch of EncFS.
EncFS has been dormant for a while. I've started cleaning up in order to try
and provide a better base for a version 2, but whether EncFS flowers again
depends upon community interest. In order to make it easier for anyone to
contribute, I'm looking at Github as the next home for EncFS. So if you're
interested in EncFS, please dive in!
WARNING - backward compatibility has been dropped many times during the
development of 2.x, and almost certainly will be again.
## GitHub page
This branch should be able to read filesystems constructed from 1.x (modulo
some bugs), but it cannot produce 1.x filesystems.
GitHub hosting for EncFS is in progress. See also the original, and more
complete, introduction page at http://www.arg0.net/encfs