Ah, thank you Nathan! I originally started reading about IOCipher on ChatSecure's github site. They described IOCipher as follows: "IOCipher allows you to create an encrypted virtual file store within a SQLite/SQLCipher database..." So now I understand based on your response. IOCipher is basically a SQLCipher database with the added ability read/write files inside of it.
-JW On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Nathan of Guardian < [email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2016, at 11:06 AM, Jabber Wocky wrote: > > I'm trying to understand some basics of IOCipher. The documentation > > states > > it to be a "virtual encrypted disk" but then mentions it is based on > > SQLCipher. Does this mean that IOCipher is actually an encrypted SQLite > > database? Just trying to understand... Thanks for any responses! > > Yes! It was Hans' brilliant idea to use libSQLFS ("a library that > implements a POSIX style filesystem on top of an SQLite database" on top > of SQLCipher. It has worked like a charm, in production use by 100,000s > of users in ChatSecure, Courier, CameraV (where we record and play > videos into it) and other apps. > > https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs > https://github.com/guardianproject/iocipher > > > -- > Nathan of Guardian > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > To unsubscribe, email: [email protected] >
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