Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: David Steele <ste...@debian.org>
* Package name : gocryptfs Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Jakob Unterwurzacher <jakob...@gmail.com> * URL : https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/ * License : Expat Programming Lang: Go Description : Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go gocryptfs is built on top the excellent go-fuse (https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse) FUSE library and its LoopbackFileSystem API. This project was inspired by EncFS and strives to fix its security issues while providing good performance (benchmarks (https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/comparison/#performance)). For details on the security of gocryptfs see the Security (https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/security/) design document. gocryptfs is one of several packages that implement FUSE encrypted mounts. EncFS is already in Debian. CryFS is currently in NEW. Relative to those, gocryptfs is generally faster and more space- efficient, and exposes features of the underlying file system (hard links, sparse files, ...). It was created to fix security deficiencies in EncFS, but it still exposes features of the protected filesystem to a greater degree than CryFS. Two additional packages need to be introduced to support installation, golang-github-jacobsa-crypto, and golang-github-rfjakob-eme. The sirikali gui currently in NEW supports gocryptfs (#838426). The Debian Go Packaging Team is listed as the Maintainer. I intend to provide ongoing support.
