I've run a decode as you suggested and get the following error
llist@LeosLinux:~$ encfsctl decode .personal_encfs
4IsnEojEtIQTghQ-ve7L2PPw/Y7hgffwS3xnUrea9YTfv0tv9/46zZcE9cZgeof-,FOidDOLP5/5Z9,JFOEziqVEWpmNcxYoEQD/Obj51dkkGdXFU933YviKKkzC/YcFPocTjysDfNrkX8DRlM9WY/-i75IKRhW9G6fuKiYkqVlSf6
10:04:05 (DirNode.cpp:379) decode err: invalid padding size
Thanks
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 17:15 +1000, Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 15:10:14 +1000
> Leo Subscriptions <llsub...@zudiewiener.com> wrote:
> | Not sure how the files would be created
> |
> | I've create a soft link to (encrypted) .mozilla ages ago and never
> | really had any problems when executing showcruft.
> |
> | I guess my questions are:
> |
> | 1) are the files listed 'pointing' to the real file in .Trash?
> | 2) could I just delete them, given they are 'trashed'?
> |
>
> The files are just that files. Encfs can not handle them so will not
> even list them in the decrypted directory it mounts.
>
> You can just delete them ( NOT THE ".encfs" file )
> (Read everything below before you do)
>
>
> However if you want to be sure you can use
>
> encfsctl decode .personal_encfs encrypted_file_path
>
> with the directory the file is in to see what the name of the
> unencrypted directory is that the files are in.
>
> EG:
> encfsctl decode .personal_encfs
> 4IsnEojEtIQTghQ-ve7L2PPw/Y7hgffwS3xnUrea9YTfv0tv9/46zZcE9cZgeof-,FOidDOLP5/5Z9,JFOEziqVEWpmNcxYoEQD/Obj51dkkGdXFU933YviKKkzC
>
> will tell you the name of the directory the 'unknown' files are located in.
>
> This may give you a clue as to what they should be!
>
> However a "ls" in that unencrypted directory will not show those files
> (because they are unknown 'cruft' in encfs).
>
> If you have two 'file manager' windows open to both versions of the
> directory, while you add and remove files in the unencrypted directory,
> you should see encrypted files appear/disappear from the encrypted
> directory. That would let you know you really are looking in the
> equivalent directory.
>
> If you remove all the the 'known' unencrypted files to some other
> directory (to save them), those 'known' files will be removed from the
> encrypted directory. When you have moved all 'known' files so the
> unencrypted directory is empty, you should only have the 'cruft' files
> left in the unencrypted directory as EncFS does not understand them.
>
> Those files are now easily removed and junked.
>
> That is the 'safe' --double check -- way.
>
> Of course you could have just deleted them directly too!
> Though that still begs the question as to why they were created!
>
>
>
>
> As I said, I make interleaved EncFS directories so one encfs may
> not decrypt all files in a specific directory. I also create
> completely fake EncFS directories. They look like EncFS but the
> data is encrypted in different ways as a method of storing other
> information, in my case storing 'encryption keys' for my real
> EncFS directories :-)
>
> If anyone likes more information on this see
> My EncFS hints and Tips...
> http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/info/crypto/encfs.hints
>
> and also my KS (key store) script
> http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/software/#ks
> and the closely related encrypt (AES) script
> http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/software/#encrypt
>
>
> Comments are welcome.
>
>
> Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <a.thys...@griffith.edu.au>
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