I've taken the easy way out and followd your original suggestion of
copying all the files somewhere else. I think I'm left with only trashed
files in the encrypted FS so will delete these.
I'll keep an eye on this, though, as I still don't know what caused this
and I still have files with "MAC comparison failures"; different post
though.
Thanks for you help and patience
Leo
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 13:24 +1000, Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> try it on the directory part instead of the whole path.
> that should get you the directory decrypted directory the file
> would be in if EncFS could decrypt the file.
>
> Then you can proceed as I described comparing contents of the encrypted
> and decrypted directories.
>
>
>
> Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <a.thys...@griffith.edu.au>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> I don't know the meaning of the word "surrender!"
> I mean, I know it, I'm not dumb... just not in this context!
> -- Tick, "The Tick"
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> Anthony's Castle http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/
>
>
> On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 10:06:27 +1000
> Leo Subscriptions <llsub...@zudiewiener.com> wrote:
> | 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>
> | >
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> | > Everyone has Secrets -- Dr Gregory House, "House M.D."
> | >
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> | > Anthony's Castle http://www.ict.griffith.edu.au/anthony/
> |
> |
>
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