Hello,
this is an X-Post [1]. The background of this discussion is about
marking EncFS as deprecated because of security issues and remove it in
some years if no contributor jumps in to replace it with something else
(e.g. GoCrypt).
It's just a thought that came to mind. It's not a concrete suggestion.
But of course, I'm interested in your opinion on it.
Isn't it one of the key features of BIT, compared to other backup tools,
that you can access the backup itself without using your backup tool?
The backup is just a bunch of files and folders you can use and
investigate with your regular file system tools.
But when you use EncFS (or another way of encryption) this features is
lost. I have not used EncFS in the wild. I might be wrong.
If EncFS really is the reason for losing this feature I ask myself if it
wouldn't be "better" for BIT to really remove EncFS and not replace it
with something else. It would give BIT a more focused set of features
and behavior. Encryption is another job a user should achieve with
another tool; e.g. encrypted file system container or an encrypted
filesystem (some LUKS magic).
I am aware that there are lot of backup tools out there offering
encryption. But these tools producing a backup in a format that can be
used (and restored) only with the backup tool itself. So this is a
another group of users targeted here.
Marking EncFS as deprecated and reading the reactions of users about it
will give us an idea about how much needed such a feature is.
Best,
Christian Buhtz
[1] --
<https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1549#issuecomment-2095373077>
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