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@@ -9,26 +9,47 @@ LoopbackFileSystem API. This project was inspired by [EncFS](https://github.com/vgough/encfs) and strives to fix its security issues (see EncFS tickets 9, 13, 14, 16). For details on the security of GoCryptFS see the -[SECURITY.md](https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/blob/master/SECURITY.md) -document. +[SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md) document. Current Status -------------- * First public release * Feature-complete -* Passes the xfstests "generic" tests +* 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 exceptions 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. Install ------- - go get github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs + $ go get github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/... + +(The dots are important!) + +Use +--- + + $ mkdir cipher plain + $ alias gocryptfs="$GOPATH/src/github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/gocryptfs" + $ gocryptfs --init cipher + [...] + $ gocryptfs cipher plain + [...] + $ echo test > plain/test.txt + $ ls -l cipher + total 8 + -rw-rw-r--. 1 user user 33 7. Okt 23:23 0ao8Hyyf1A-A88sfNvkUxA== + -rw-rw-r--. 1 user user 233 7. Okt 23:23 gocryptfs.conf Performance ----------- * 28 bytes of storage overhead per block (16 bytes auth tag, 12 byte nonce) * uses openssl through [spacemonkeygo/openssl](https://github.com/spacemonkeygo/openssl) - for a 3x speedup compared to `crypto/cipher` (see [go-vs-openssl.md](https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/blob/master/openssl_benchmark/go-vs-openssl.md)) for details + for a 3x speedup compared to `crypto/cipher` (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 |