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

[John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org>]

On 13/01/2019 12.46, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:45:57 +0000
> > > 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.
>
> Huh - good to know. But I was wondering, along similar (but less
> informed) lines, how good some of the other suggestions were, e.g.
> ccrypt. I know very little about ccrypt, but has it even been
> audited at all? Is it sufficiently widely used that any vulnerablities
> or misimplementations of the sort discovered by the EncFS audit would
> have been looked for or turned up?

Looking at encfs, gocryptfs showed up, which claims "This project was  
inspired by EncFS and strives to fix its security issues while providing  
good performance":
https://packages.debian.org/stretch/gocryptfs
https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs

No personal experience (yet) of using it though.
--
John