On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 13:14:11 -0500
Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote:
|
| It seems like what you need is a filesystem that presents normal unix
| and uses a DOS-type fs as a storage mechanism, and then to stack that
| with encfs.
And that is something tat would be extrememly useful in these days of
cloud storage where you do not have control of how files are stored.
Some method of making UNIX-like file systems on any 'file only' type
storage (cloud, USB, NTFS, etc).
However this is not really an EncFS problem, Though it can benefit from
hiding file attributes as well as the data.
NOTE: Time stamps on files should still be available as normal however
(even if also stored for the decrypted usage), so you can still do
incremental distribution (rsync/unison) of the encrypted files.
The other aspect is some method in whcih large files are split into smaller
segments in the encrypted filesystem. Why... to hide file lengths!
As it viewers of an encrypted directory can generally tell if you have
encrypted a directory of images, text files, or videos.
With this extra hiding, EncFS would become even stronger as it would become
next to impossible to determine what type of files are being stored.
This is what I have always considered to be the 'next generation' for
Directory level encryption systems.
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <a.thys...@griffith.edu.au>
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