Questions tagged [encfs]
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Use homebrew to install encfs on macOS?
I'd like to use homebrew to install encfs on macOS. Ideally, this would look like:
brew install macfuse
brew install encfs
As of macOS 12/Monterey, the first command works, but the second one does ...
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Error: encfs has been disabled because it requires FUSE
I'm trying to install and run command in macOS Catalina 10.15.7: brew install encfs
but getting error below
Error: encfs has been disabled because it requires FUSE!
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Error: homebrew/fuse was ...
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cannot see files after mounting encfs directory
I have an ubuntu 18.04 machine with encrypted home partition and the home directory is backed up using rsnapshot. So for example, I have the following directory structure in my rsnapshot drive:
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No mounting point in /etc/mtab when using encfs from within apache2
I've written a webpage that lets me remotely mount an encfs encrypted folder, which is then accessible via WebDAV. It's basically just a password form with a mount / unmount button, which tries to ...
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Encfs unmounted drive is still visible
So I used this:
encfs ~/secret ~/plaintext
Then I wrote some text files to plaintext directory. Then I unmounted by doing this:
fusermount -u ~/plaintext
Yet when I go to the /secret/ directory I ...
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Can anyone decrypt files when 2 copies present on EncFS?
Can anyone clarify this conclusion in the audit on EncFS:
'EncFS is probably safe as long as the adversary only gets one copy of the ciphertext and nothing more. EncFS is not safe if the adversary ...
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Multi-user cross-platform client-side on-disk encryption with a SMB/AFS NAS?
I have an old Lacie 5big NAS that does not support encryption. It speaks SMB, AFS and FTP.
I'm looking for a way to store encrypted data on the NAS, at the same time it should be accessible by ...
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Private encfs mount (limited access per-process)
How to restrict access to an encfs mount to (a) specific process(es)?
By default, encfs is visible only to the current user (except when using the --public option).
Running encfs as another user has ...
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Storing EncFS's config file in SmartCard/Token
I used to store a random generated keyfile in a SmartCard and TrueCrypt was able to access this keyfile using PKCS #11.
I'm trying EncFS now. Some people complain about it storing some of its ...
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"Input/output errors" using encfs folder inside Dropbox folder
I have a 200 gig Encfs encrypted file system living in my Dropbox and being accessed by multiple machines, and I've never had any problems with it until now.
I moved about 10 gigs of data around on ...
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Change name encryption algorithm?
EncFS offers 2 different modes for encrypting filenames: "block" and "stream". I left the defaults and it chose "block". Now I'm discovering the filepaths it has created are too long for Windows to ...
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Use private keys only from ssh-agent, avoiding "Too many authentication failures"
I store all my private keys encrypted in encfs file.
I mount (decrypt) encfs file to folder, add all private keys to ssh-agent with a lifetime flag and unmount folder.
In this case my private key ...
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Mount encfs volume created by encfs4win on OS X or Linux
I created a few encfs volumes on Windows 7 using encfs4win. One is on Dropbox others are elswhere.
I am not able to mount these volumes on Linux or OS X. On Linux Mint I use the frontend Cryptkeeper ...
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Mount encfs volume via RDP client
On a Windows machine with Windows 7 installed I created an encfs volume in Dropbox using encfs4win. I can mount this volume without a problem when I am working on that machine.
I tried to mount that ...
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fuse + encfs, can mount but cannot unmount with fusermount
I created two directories in home, and mounted them with default configurations with encfs.
That worked well enough, the file system is mounted and encrypted fine.
The odd part now is that I cannot ...
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