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Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files

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On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 10:18:47PM -0500, Celejar wrote:
>The standard encryption technology for linux is LUKS. It works on the
>block device level, not the file level.

LUKS would be no good if the user wants to move/copy/share the encrypted
files, encrypted, elsewhere: they didn't say so explicitly but that's
the impression I got reading their message.

>I believe that the most commonly used software for file level
>encryption is EncFS. I haven't really used it much, and can't speak to
>its long term stablity.

EncFS should not be used for any new file encryption project, IMHO.
There was the following report in 2014:
https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm
This is referenced in the NEWS file in the EncFS package
https://salsa.debian.org/debian/encfs/blob/debian/sid/debian/NEWS

Both the report and the NEWS file are 5 years sold so I am not sure of
its current status but I'd want to seek positive assurance.

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Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk  symmetric encryption/decryption of files Kynn Jones <kynnjo@gmail.com> - 2019-01-09 15:10 +0100
  Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk  symmetric encryption/decryption of files David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2019-01-09 20:00 +0100
  Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised,          bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files Linux-Fan <Ma_Sys.ma@web.de> - 2019-01-10 00:50 +0100
  Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised,  bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-01-10 04:20 +0100
    Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised,  bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2019-01-11 22:50 +0100
      Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised,  bulk symmetric encryption/decryption of files Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2019-01-13 04:50 +0100
        Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk  symmetric encryption/decryption of files John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2019-01-13 10:00 +0100
  Re: Looking for advice on tools (or libraries) for unsupervised, bulk  symmetric encryption/decryption of files Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2019-01-10 06:10 +0100

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