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eCryptfs

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The enterprise cryptographic filesystem for Linux.

License model

  • FreeOpen Source

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Platforms

  • Linux
Discontinued

last update 2013https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tyhicks/ecryptfs.git/log/fs/ecryptfs

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Features

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  1.  Password protection
  2.  Encrypt Folder

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eCryptfs information

  • Developed by

    Unknown
  • Licensing

    Open Source and Free product.
  • Rating

    Average rating of 3
  • Alternatives

    38 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about eCryptfs, and it has gotten 15 likes

eCryptfs was added to AlternativeTo by Viaken on Jun 9, 2014 and this page was last updated Sep 1, 2022.

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Top Positive Comment
Mr. Anon
Jun 4, 2023
0

This is an effective tool to encrypt your home folder, which natively works with Ubuntu-based distros. It may be old, but there's no evidence that ecryptfs has ever been compromised.

I used this tool because I didn't want to use LVM or full disk encryption on my Linux install due to too many headaches around restore efforts.

"eCryptfs was super powerful, with hundreds of options and supported configurations, but all of that proved far to difficult for users at large. So I set out to simplify it drastically, with an opinionated set of basic defaults. I started with a simple command to mount a "Private" directory inside of your home directory, where you could stash your secrets. A few months later, on a long flight to Paris, I managed to hack a new PAM module, pam_ecryptfs.c, that actually encrypted your entire home directory! This was pretty revolutionary at the time -- predating Apple's FileVault or Microsoft's Bitlocker, even. Today, tens of millions of Ubuntu users have used eCryptfs to secure their personal data."

Top Negative Comment
OAKSIF0
Feb 11, 2018
1

This software sucks and is so outdated. Its better to use veracrypt or LUKS cause you can't access your home folder using this software, if you were to repair your computer in a live cd, its just so much pain to use and then setting up repositories just to download this software and you have to do it every time you reboot! Not worth using!

What is eCryptfs?

The enterprise cryptographic filesystem for Linux

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