eCryptfs
Original author(s) | Michael Halcrow, IBM Linux Technology Center, Erez Zadok |
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Initial release | November 30, 2006 |
Stable release | 111
/ May 2, 2016 |
Written in | GPL v2+ |
Website | ecryptfs |
eCryptfs (enterprise cryptographic filesystem) is a package of
since version 2.6.19.Details
The eCryptfs package has been included in
eCryptfs is derived from Erez Zadok's Cryptfs.
It also encrypts file and directory names which makes them internally longer (average one third). The reason is it needs to uuencode the encrypted names to eliminate unwanted characters in the resulting name. This lowers the maximum usable byte name length of the original file system entry depending on the used file system (this can lead to four times fewer characters for example for Asian utf-8 file names).
See also
- Disk encryption
- Disk encryption software
- Comparison of disk encryption software
- EncFS
- dm-crypt
- FileVault
- Encrypting File System
References
- ^ "About the project". 2012. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ a b Halcrow, Michael Austin (2005). eCryptfs: An Enterprise-class Encrypted Filesystem for Linux (PDF). Proc. Linux Symposium. Vol. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ Ian Nicholson (2014-11-24). "Ubuntu CommunityHelpWiki: EncryptedHome". Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ Ian Nicholson (2014-11-24). "Ubuntu CommunityHelpWiki: EncryptedHome". Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ "eCryptfs – Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem".