On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:56:42 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > > Apart from the need to access legacy data, which Harry has resolved by > > reformatting, is there any benefit in using encfs rather than the > > in-kernel ecryptfs these days? > > Are you using ecryptfs? I started looking around and thinking exactly > what Albert says is not a proper response, and wondering if ecryptfs > might be a better choice.
Not at the moment, although I have used it from time to time and it does what it should without fuss. > Also after seeing no responses or any posts at all on the encfs group, > I wondered if ecryptfs is under active development, as it appears > encfs is not. So, for that reason alone, (assuming there is current > active devel going on with ecryptfs) it might be good to switch. Ubuntu use it for encrypting home directories, so it should have active attention. -- Neil Bothwick ... "Yummy," said Pooh, as he hilted his paw into the "honeypot".
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