From: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de>
To: ecryptfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: encryption metadata not stored with filesystem
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:36:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201112191336.05938.ms@teamix.de> (raw)
Hi!
On trying to work with ecryptfs I have found that I have to store ecryptfs
configuration in an undocumented file ~/.ecryptfsrc like:
merkaba:~> cat .ecryptfsrc
ecryptfs_unlink_sigs
ecryptfs_sig=[…]
ecryptfs_fnek_sig=[…]
ecryptfs_xattr
ecryptfs_key_bytes=32
ecryptfs_cipher=aes
ecryptfs_passthrough=n
in order to mount ecryptfs without mount options.
This makes handling of ecryptfs filesystem more complicated than encfs, since
encfs seems to store encryption metadata in the encrypted directory itself:
merkaba:~> ls -l /home/.ms2/.encfs5
-rw-r----- 1 root root 241 Mai 19 2008 /home/.ms2/.encfs5
Thus with ecryptfs I have to save the encrypted directory and the filesystem
settings for a backup while with encfs its enough to copy the encrypted
directory.
Please consider to add this feature in ecryptfs.
It will also make setting up ecryptfs easier.
Thanks,
--
Martin Steigerwald - teamix GmbH - http://www.teamix.de
gpg: 19E3 8D42 896F D004 08AC A0CA 1E10 C593 0399 AE90
next reply other threads:[~2011-12-19 12:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-19 12:36 Martin Steigerwald [this message]
2011-12-19 21:53 ` encryption metadata not stored with filesystem Dustin Kirkland
2011-12-20 9:53 ` Martin Steigerwald
2011-12-22 2:49 ` Dustin Kirkland
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