On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
Question for the crowd: How difficult it would be to write a suitable crypto engine as a plug-in module for FUSE itself? Then we could have support for encrypted files on any filesystem accessible through FUSE.
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It seems that there is a solution Out There already, in the form of EncFS. See http://arg0.net/users/vgough/encfs.html Mount the GmailFS as eg. /mnt/gmail, and then mount encfs to eg. /mnt/gmailsec with /mnt/gmail as its root. Voila, problem solved! (At least theoretically. I didn't test it.) What are your thoughts on EncFS, please? Related note: Is there a way to encrypt a removable medium, eg. a CD or DVD disk, in a way that makes it readable under all major OSs (with the required add-ons installed), namely Linux, BSD, and Windows 98/2000/XP? The appeal (and a certain disadvantage) of EncFS is its file-oriented approach, making it easy to have a portable userspace decoding utility, for data access anywhere if you got the password.