fuse-encfs orphaned

[Anthony Green]

Check out this audit...

https://defuse.ca/audits/encfs.htm

ecryptfs is the closest alternative, it seems.

AG


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jos de Kloe" <josdekloe at gmail.com>
To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel at lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2014 4:10:56 AM
Subject: Re: fuse-encfs orphaned

On 05/15/2014 05:01 PM, Till Maas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> fuse-encfs does not use proper encryption and upstream was not very
> active recently. Therefore I decided to orphan it on Fedora and EPEL. If
> someone is interested in fixing it, please take it. Otherwise it will be
> retired eventually.
> 
> Regards
> Till

Hi,

as a user I would be fairly disappointed to see this package go, since I
think it is a very nice and convenient thing to have.

I am no encryption expert, but I see on wikipedia that "EncFS uses
whatever ciphers it is able to locate in various encryption libraries on
the system.", so what is wrong with that? Could you explain in a bit
more detail what the problem is or give some pointers to where this info
can be found? Is this a configuration choice on the packaging side or a
fundamental problem in the software itself?

Cheers,

Jos

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