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Subject: Re: ecryptfs is unmaintained and untested
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John Stultz - 14.10.25, 18:38:52 CEST:
> Mostly I avoid dm-crypt for personal files as I want the majority of
> things (family pictures, etc) to be as simply recoverable as possible.
> It's only for a small amount of things like email archives and
> tax/financial documents that I'd like to have it be non-trivial to
> access if my backup drive or desktop was stolen.

See my hints about CryFS or gocryptfs in my other mail as used by Plasma 
Vault. I believe it might suit your use case quite well.

-- 
Martin