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authorJakob Unterwurzacher2015-11-14 19:10:52 +0100
committerJakob Unterwurzacher2015-11-14 19:15:51 +0100
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README: add beta badge and update text
Also, improve the help text.
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@@ -13,14 +13,30 @@ For details on the security of gocryptfs see the
Current Status
--------------
-* Feature-complete and working
-* Passes the fuse-xfstests "generic" tests with one exception, results: [XFSTESTS.md](XFSTESTS.md)
- * A lot of work has gone into this. The testing has found bugs in gocryptfs
- as well as in go-fuse.
- * The one exception is generic/035. This is a limitation in go-fuse,
- check out https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/issues/55 for details.
-* However, gocryptfs needs more real-world testing - please report any issues via github.
-* Only Linux operation has been tested. Help wanted for Mac OS X verification.
+
+Beta. You are advised to keep a backup of your data outside of gocryptfs, in
+addition to storing the *master key* in a safe place (the master key is printed
+when mounting).
+
+That said, I am dogfooding on gocryptfs for some time now. In fact, all gocryptfs
+development happens inside a mounted gocryptfs filesystem, with no issues so far.
+
+Only Linux is supported at the moment. Help wanted for a Mac OS X port.
+
+Testing
+-------
+
+gocryptfs comes with is own test suite, run it using `./test.bash`.
+
+In addition, i have ported `xfstests` to FUSE, the result is the
+[fuse-xfstests](https://github.com/rfjakob/fuse-xfstests) project. gocryptfs
+passes the "generic" tests with one exception, results: [XFSTESTS.md](XFSTESTS.md)
+
+A lot of work has gone into this. The testing has found bugs in gocryptfs
+as well as in go-fuse.
+
+The one exception is generic/035, see [go-fuse issue 55](https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/issues/55)
+for details. While this is a POSIX violation, I do not see any real-world impact.
Install
-------
@@ -44,7 +60,9 @@ Quickstart:
-rw-rw-r--. 1 user user 233 7. Okt 23:23 gocryptfs.conf
$ fusermount -u plain
-See [MANPAGE.md](MANPAGE.md) for a description of available options.
+See [MANPAGE.md](MANPAGE.md) for a description of available options. If you already
+have gocryptfs installed, run `./MANPAGE-render.bash` to bring up the rendered manpage in
+the pager (requires pandoc).
Storage Overhead
----------------
@@ -56,27 +74,33 @@ Storage Overhead
Performance
-----------
-* uses openssl through [spacemonkeygo/openssl](https://github.com/spacemonkeygo/openssl)
- for a 3x speedup compared to `crypto/cipher` (see [go-vs-openssl.md](openssl_benchmark/go-vs-openssl.md) for details
+gocryptfs uses openssl through
+[spacemonkeygo/openssl](https://github.com/spacemonkeygo/openssl)
+for a 3x speedup compared to Go's builtin AES-GCM implementation (see
+[go-vs-openssl.md](openssl_benchmark/go-vs-openssl.md) for details).
-Run `./benchmark.bash` to run the test suite and the streaming read/write
-benchmark. The benchmark is run twice, first with native Go crypto and
-second using openssl.
+Run `./benchmark.bash` to run the benchmarks.
The output should look like this:
- $ ./benchmark.bash
- [...]
- BenchmarkStreamWrite 100 11816665 ns/op 88.74 MB/s
- BenchmarkStreamRead 200 7848155 ns/op 133.61 MB/s
- ok github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs 9.407s
+ ./benchmark.bash
+ gocryptfs v0.3.1-30-gd69e0df-dirty; on-disk format 2
+ PASS
+ BenchmarkStreamWrite-2 100 12246070 ns/op 85.63 MB/s
+ BenchmarkStreamRead-2 200 9125990 ns/op 114.90 MB/s
+ BenchmarkCreate0B-2 10000 101284 ns/op
+ BenchmarkCreate1B-2 10000 178356 ns/op 0.01 MB/s
+ BenchmarkCreate100B-2 5000 361014 ns/op 0.28 MB/s
+ BenchmarkCreate4kB-2 5000 375035 ns/op 10.92 MB/s
+ BenchmarkCreate10kB-2 3000 491071 ns/op 20.85 MB/s
+ ok github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/integration_tests 17.216s
Changelog
---------
v0.4 (in progress)
-* Add `--plaintextnames` command line option
- * Can only be used in conjunction with `--init` and disables filename encryption
+* Add `-plaintextnames` command line option
+ * Can only be used in conjunction with `-init` and disables filename encryption
(added on user request)
* Add `FeatureFlags` config file paramter
* This is a config format change, hence the on-disk format is incremented