Daniele De Felice writes: >Hi all, >i am a very happy user of encfs under Linux. > >I am investigating the possibility of running encfs inside a Dropbox folder. >Despite the warnings and risks (like stated here >http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=15065), >i have 2 questions: > >1) Is there the possibility of some form of compression in the >encryption algorythm used by encfs (to save some Dropbox space)?
To the extent that encfs uses a good encryption algorithm, no. In general, compression algorithms rely on a lack of randomness in the data to be compressed; an encryption algorithm should end up with a statistically random bit string. So no. Notice that if you compress your data first, and then encrypt it, you should get some space saving. >2) Thinking of how to access my box from my Windows machines, have you >ever tried a Windows porting of encfs? Are these guys >http://www.boxcryptor.com/index.html in anyway related to the author of >encfs? Did any of you try it? This goal wouldn't require a port -- the encrypted filesystem is over on the linux box. Remote access does the decryption there, and provides the cleartext data to the box that's doing the accessing. A windows port of sshfs might make better sense, though I'd expect (while admittedly knowing almost nothing about Windows) that the result would be closer to a reimplementation from scratch of the sshfs protocol. -- "It used to be that the USA was pretty good at producing stuff teenaged boys could lose a finger or two playing with." -- James Nicoll ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Encfs-users mailing list Encfs-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/encfs-users
