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<a id="forkme_banner" href="https://github.com/vgough/encfs">View on GitHub</a>
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<h1 id="project_title">Encfs</h1>
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<h2 id="project_tagline">EncFS: an Encrypted Filesystem for FUSE.</h2>
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<a name="encfs---an-encrypted-filesystem" class="anchor" href="#encfs---an-encrypted-filesystem"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>EncFS - an Encrypted Filesystem</h1>
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<a name="about" class="anchor" href="#about"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>About</h2>
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<p>EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs in userspace,
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using the FUSE library for the filesystem interface. EncFS is open source
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software, licensed under the LGPL.</p>
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<p>EncFS was written by necessity over a decade ago by me, <a href="https://github.com/vgough" class="user-mention">@vgough</a>. At the time,
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older NFS-loopback based encrypted filesystems such as CFS had not kept pace with Linux
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development. When FUSE became available, I wrote a CFS replacement for my own
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use and released the first version to Open Source in 2003.</p>
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<p>As with most encrypted filesystems, Encfs was meant to provide security against
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off-line attacks; ie your notebook or backups are left in a taxi by mistake, stolen, etc.
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In order to avoid having a dedicated partition size, EncFS encrypts individual files,
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by translating all requests for the virtual EncFS filesystem into the equivalent
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encrypted operations on the raw filesystem. </p>
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<a name="status" class="anchor" href="#status"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>Status</h2>
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<p>Over the last decade, a number of good alternatives have grown up. Computing
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power has increased to the point where it is reasonable to encrypt the entire
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filesystem of personal computers. On Linux, ecryptfs
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provides a nice dynamically mountable encrypted home directory, and is well
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integrated in distributions I use, such as Ubuntu. Every compute I use, including
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my mobile phones, use full-disk encryption. However there always seem to be new
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use cases for userspace file-by-file encryption, so EncFS remains useful.</p>
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<p>EncFS has been dormant for a while. I've started cleaning up in order to try
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and provide a better base for a version 2, but whether EncFS flowers again
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depends upon community interest. In order to make it easier for anyone to
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contribute, I'm looking at Github as the next home for EncFS. So if you're
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interested in EncFS, please dive in!</p>
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<a name="github-page" class="anchor" href="#github-page"><span class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a>GitHub page</h2>
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<p>GitHub hosting for EncFS is in progress. Until the transition is complete,
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see also the original, and more complete, introduction page at <a href="http://www.arg0.net/encfs">http://www.arg0.net/encfs</a></p>
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<p class="copyright">Encfs maintained by <a href="https://github.com/vgough">vgough</a></p>
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