eCryptfs
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| eCryptfs | |
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| [[Programmer|Original authorTemplate:Pluralize from text]] | Michael Halcrow, IBM Linux Technology Center, Erez Zadok |
| Initial release | November 30, 2006 |
| Written in | C |
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| Operating system | Linux |
| Platform | Linux kernel |
| Type | filesystem, encryption |
| License | GPL v2+ |
| Website | ecryptfs |
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eCryptfs (enterprise cryptographic filesystem) is a package of disk encryption software for Linux. Its implementation is a POSIX-compliant[1] filesystem-level encryption layer, aiming to offer functionality similar to that of GnuPG at the operating system level,[2]Template:R/superscript and has been part of the Linux kernel since version 2.6.19.
Details
The eCryptfs package has been included in Ubuntu since version 9.04 to implement Ubuntu's encrypted home directory feature,[3] but is now deprecated[4]
eCryptfs is derived from Erez Zadok's Cryptfs.[5] It uses a variant of the OpenPGP file format for encrypted data, extended to allow random access, storing cryptographic metadata (including a per-file randomly generated session key) with each individual file.[2]
It also encrypts file and directory names which makes them internally longer (average one third). The reason is it needs to uuencode the encrypted names to eliminate unwanted characters in the resulting name. This lowers the maximum usable byte name length of the original file system entry depending on the used file system (this can lead to four times fewer characters for example for Asian utf-8 file names).
See also
- Disk encryption
- Disk encryption software
- Comparison of disk encryption software
- EncFS
- dm-crypt
- FileVault
- Encrypting File System
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."About the project". 2012. Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Halcrow, Michael Austin (2005). eCryptfs: An Enterprise-class Encrypted Filesystem for Linux (PDF). Proc. Linux Symposium. Vol. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-09-16. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ian Nicholson (2014-11-24). "Ubuntu CommunityHelpWiki: EncryptedHome". Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ian Nicholson (2014-11-24). "Ubuntu CommunityHelpWiki: EncryptedHome". Retrieved 2018-11-15.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."eCryptfs – Enterprise Cryptographic Filesystem".
