On 7/16/2012 1:59 AM, Tom Metro wrote:
But I'm assuming that EncFS isn't doing anything to assist the syncing
of partial files, so your minimum transfer is a full file.

Like I said, I've been experimenting, and I've found how to make this work better with rsync/unison. Hooray for reading the manual :).

EncFS has an option called per-file initialization vectors (IVs) which is enabled by default. This option generates a 64-bit random IV for each file written. This ensures that encrypted blocks are never identical. If you turn per-file IVs off then block encryption becomes deterministic, which is a fancy way of saying same cleartext in, same ciphertext out.

rsyncrypto uses the same kind of not-random IVs with similar results.

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Rich P.

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