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Improved Fscrypt File Encryption Handling Aims For Linux 5.4
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Several releases suggests, that it's not new. Actually, first bits were released with kernel 4.1.
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Originally posted by oleid View Post
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Originally posted by anarki2 View PostWait what? Fscrypt is becoming part of the kernel? Will the github repo contain just the userspace utils then? Or is that so already?
While that Fscrypt-based file encryption has been part of the kernel for several releases now, (...)
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Wait what? Fscrypt is becoming part of the kernel? Will the github repo contain just the userspace utils then? Or is that so already?
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Ewic Biggus of Google has been wowking to impwove the key management for fscwypt.
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Improved Fscrypt File Encryption Handling Aims For Linux 5.4
Phoronix: Improved Fscrypt File Encryption Handling Aims For Linux 5.4
Fscrypt is the common Linux kernel framework leveraged by the likes of the EXT4, F2FS, and UBIFS file-systems for providing native encryption support. While that Fscrypt-based file encryption has been part of the kernel for several releases now, there's been some shortcomings in how the encryption keys are handled but that should be cleared up for the upcoming Linux 5.4 cycle...
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