List of cryptographic file systems

This is a list of filesystems with support for filesystem-level encryption. Not to be confused with full-disk encryption.

General-purpose filesystems with encryption

Cryptographic filesystems

FUSE-based file systems
File system Latest release
gocryptfs 2020[3]
CryFS 2019[4]
securefs 2019[5]
EncFS 2018[6]
LessFS[7] 2013[8]
MetFS[9] 2012[9]
Discontinued projects
CryptoFS[10] 2007[11]
Magikfs[12] 2006[13]
PhoneBookFS[14] 2004[15]

Integrated into the Linux kernel

Integrated into other UNIXes
  • PEFS (Private Encrypted File System) on FreeBSD[18]
  • geli on FreeBSD
  • EFS (Encrypted File System) on AIX[19]
gollark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS_encryption_key_controversy
gollark: Or the stupidly large numbers representing, say, copyrighted MP3s.
gollark: Or just DMCA-or-whatever-protected encryption keys.
gollark: An interesting consequence of modern computers and copyright law is that some numbers are sort of illegal.
gollark: Bad idea #12593c.1: encode *illegal numbers* (and data, e.g. copyrighted content you don't have the rights to) as images, sell those as art, reveal its nature and the decoding scheme afterwards, ???, profit.

See also

References
  1. "Ext4 encryption [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Archived from the original on 19 February 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
  2. https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=143517753413580
  3. "gocryptfs: simple. secure. fast". Archived from the original on 2019-02-25. Retrieved 2020-05-16.
  4. "CryFS: A cryptographic file system for the cloud". Archived from the original on 2019-03-23. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  5. "Release 0.8.3 · netheril96/securefs". Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  6. "vgough/encfs". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2016-01-17. Retrieved 2019-03-23.
  7. "Lessfs". Lessfs.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-30. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  8. "lessfs - data deduplication for less - Browse Files at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2016-01-17. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  9. "Metin KAYA - MetFS Encrypted, Dynamic Sized, Single File, FUSE Based Filesystem in Userspace". www.enderunix.org. Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  10. "Reboot's personal page". reboot.github.io. Archived from the original on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  11. "Reboot's personal page". reboot.github.io. Archived from the original on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  12. "Magikfs – The Steganographic File System On Linux". magikfs.sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  13. "magikfs-The steganographic filesystem - Browse Files at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  14. "Phonebook - Software to Make Your PC 'Police-Ready'". freenet.mcnabhosting.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
  15. "Changelog for phonebook". Archived from the original on 2016-01-17.
  16. "eCryptfs in Launchpad". Launchpad.net. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  17. Archived September 2, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  18. "glk/pefs 路 GitHub". Github.com. Archived from the original on 2014-07-22. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
  19. "Understanding EFS". www.ibm.com. 29 January 2008. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
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