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@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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 -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
