alphazo Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 I wrote about encFS many years ago on this forum and wanted to provide an update. A number of new alternatives have emerged and unRAID architecture has changed quite a bit. Block device encryption remain the fastest way to protect a hard drive especially if the CPU provides AES-NI instructions. Will unRAID be ever able to mount external dm-crypt encrypted USB drive used for backups? Now for NAS/unRAID storage and also Cloud storage a per file encryption is prefered and encFS has been around for quite some time but has never been perfect security and performance wise. I recently cam across a couple of new projects that aim to be an alternative to encFS such as : gocryptfs https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs securefs https://github.com/netheril96/securefs I ran a simple benchmark on a desktop and a SSD and wanted to share it with the unRAID community. https://gist.github.com/alphazo/09a2e523e22e7aa00d491ab67678dd80 Quote Link to comment
boof Posted May 12, 2016 Share Posted May 12, 2016 There is also ecryptfs which has some level of kernel adoption. It's what ubuntu (perhaps others?) use to provide encrypted homedirs etc I believe. It can behave in the same way as encfs (normal user, single directory) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECryptfs Quote Link to comment
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