Curious about usability of cgd over network for encrypted cloud storage. The use case is mentioned in the NetBSD user guide here [1].
- Is such use case feasible with sshfs? - Will it be conservative on bandwidth, such as minimizing the blocks exchanged over network for read/write (particularly with sshfs)? - Is the filesystem size growable safely as the space requirement goes up? - One of the drawbacks is, cgd is NetBSD specific, so can't mount on Linux. Can I possibly export it (plain text) as NFS from a NetBSD system and let Linux mount it? - Are there alternatives (userspace acceptable). Particularly encfs comes pretty close to meeting the requirement. But a bit concerned about reported security issues with it[2], supposed to be fixed in 2.0. (Current version is 1.9.5.) - Also read about cryfs[3]. There is a bit old wip/cryfs package. Haven't tried. But cryfs seems in its very early stages still 0.10.1 though it appears to be an active project. [1] https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-cgd.html#chap-cgd-suggestions-warnings [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS#EncFS_1.8_security_concerns [3] https://www.cryfs.org/ Mayuresh