[clue-tech] EncFS - file encryption using Fuse

[rjohnston at denverinternet.com]

On May 12, 2010 at 10:39 PM Jim Ockers <ockers at ockers.net> quoth :

> Hi,
>
> Jed S. Baer wrote:
> > This came up in discussion after the meeting last night.
> >
> > Seems pretty spiffy. Certain meta-data is not encrypted, but contents
> > are. For low-level paranoia, or just data security without any black
> > helicopter overtones, it's a good solution. IANBS, so can't testify to
> > whether the implementation has any cryptographic flaws.
> >
> > jed
> >   
>
> Unfortunately I wasn't there for your discussion (but I would have liked
> to be), so I don't know if TrueCrypt was discussed as a means of
> encrypting data on hard drives. I don't know what "black helicopter"
> overtones are but there are lots of nosy people out there.
>
> I have been using TrueCrypt as a matter of course for some time now, for
> any data that is probably not any business of people who might feel the
> need to snoop through computer systems that I use or travel with.
> TrueCrypt is very easy to use, and the plausible deniability feature is
> interesting too. :) It seems to be fairly well designed and implemented
> and works on Linux Windows and other platforms I think.
 
 
yeah,
like jed said  - it was after-meeting,
but truecrypt did come up, because it is free - but we discussed that it isn't
open.
so the discussion went in the direction of what is available that is open source
...