gmail as a gigabyte of an external filesystem

[Adam Back]

Don't know anything about EncFS, but you could also use loopback
encryption on top of gmailfs.  Just make a large file in gmail fs, and
make a filesystem in it via loopback virtual block device-in-a-file.

Adam

On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 04:44:58AM +0200, Thomas Shaddack wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > -----------
> > http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/29/turn_gmail_storage_i.html
> 
> 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?