From 8431a8c401a88568dcadcd491679089de5b87c0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Valient Gough EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs with regular user
-permissions using the FUSE library to act as a filesystem.
-EncFS is open source software, licensed under the LGPL. EncFS was written due to necessity over a decade ago. At the time,
-older NFS-loopback 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 are left in a taxi by mistake, stolen, etc.
-In order to avoid having a dedicated partition size, EncFS encrypts individual files,
-by translating all requests for the virtual EncFS filesystem into the equivalent
-encrypted operations on the raw filesystem. Over the last decade, 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. On Linux, ecryptfs
-provides a nice dynamically mountable encrypted home directory, and is well
-integrated in distributions I use, such as Ubuntu.
-Every compute I use, including my mobile phones, use full-disk encryption. 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!
-Status
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-However there always seem to be new use cases for userspace file-by-file encryption,
-so EncFS remains useful.
To submit changes to EncFS, or to submit a bug ticket, see the +EncFS GitHub page. +
GitHub hosting for EncFS is in progress. Until the transition is complete, see also the original, and more complete, introduction page at the old arg0.net