Questions tagged [ecryptfs]
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Decrypting ecryptfs files recovered using photorec
(There was a similar very old question here but I wasn't sure that I should / could bump that and my case is slightly different)
I am tasked with recovering some information that a user deleted by ...
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ecryptfs module within WSL not loaded
I'm trying to load an ecryptfs encrypted folder on a USB device on Windows with WSL2. I've followed the instructions here to build a new linux kernel. However, when I do modprobe ecryptfs inside the ...
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eCryptfs: remove directory from list of encrypted directories so I can replace it and re-encrypt
I have a directory in my home directory that is encrypted with eCryptfs. Somehow, it got corrupted, and I can't read any of the files in the directory. I'm not inclined to try to fix it, since I have ...
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Home folder has been transformed into an encrypted file
Hi I have a weird problem, I've never seen before.
I'm running Linux Mint 20.1.
While running a live USB to try to fix a problem with file permissions on my root folder someone suggested I run >
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Passphrase overwrite a potential security flaw in using eCryptfs
I have been testing out eCryptfs on Ubuntu 18.04.
I was happy with it until I discovered that after I unmounted an encrypted volume, a user with root access can mount it again with a newly generated ...
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Mount ecryptfs with filename encryption but without user interaction
I am trying to write a single command which will be issued by a program at runtime, to mount a directory with ecryptfs. This needs to be a non-interactive process with nothing known in advance so that ...
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Can no longer mount ecryptfs after fsck removed Private.sig file
OS: Ubuntu Server 18.04
I have an encrypted home directory. Recently I installed a Steam game that was writing to this directory (since Steam saves gamefiles to your home dir), and I think it started ...
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How to decrypt eCryptfs files that were recovered using photorec from a damaged partition
I used photorec -- to a reasonable degree of success -- to recover files from a damage home partition where users' homes were encrypted using ecryptfs on Ubuntu.
The salvaged files are now named ...
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ecryptfs - Encrypting identical files with the same key leads to different results
My understanding so far has been that ecryptfs uses a wrapped passphrase to encrypt files.
When I mount two pairs of encrypted/decrypted directories using the same key I expect the same result when ...
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eCryptfs: what if I remove ~/.ecryptfs
I'm learning how to use eCryptfs: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ECryptfs
I get things as below from the link:
This is used to derive the actual file encryption master key. Thus,
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Mount encrypted Synology folder on non-Synology platform
I sold my Synology NAS box on eBay while keeping the HDDs. I completely forgot that I had encrypted some of my "Shared Folders". Now I desperately need to mount these @Test@ folders using anything ...
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Why /home/.ecryptfs is missing inside dd image of LVM partition?
Disk Copy
2 month ago I backed up the 128G HDD of an old laptop with Ubuntu 16.04 on it, using dd:
# sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=/media/victor/blackWD/ss9backup.img conv=noerror bs=128k status=progress
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'Quick shredding' home directory encrypted with ecryptfs
I need to re-use a disk from another computer and would like to ensure existing data can be as hard to recover as possible, without making full shred runs over the entire device (when drives are, say, ...
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ecryptfs: what and where is the key represented by "fnek_sig"?
I have encrypted private folder.
In mount options there are two sigs: ecryptfs_fnek_sig and ecryptfs_sig.
When I call keyctl show it shows, that I have two keys represented by these sigs. But actually ...
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Some way to support compression in front of ecryptfs transparently?
I would like to use ecryptfs for some files/directories, maybe a whole file system. Some of my files can be compressed pretty good, but from what I've read so far ecryptfs doesn't support compression ...
