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CryFS
CryFS encrypts your files, so you can safely store them anywhere. It works well together with cloud services like Dropbox, iCloud, OneDrive and others. See https://www.cryfs.org.
Install latest release
This only works for Ubuntu 17.04 and later, and Debian Stretch and later. You can also use CryFS on older versions of these distributions by following the Building from source instructions below.
sudo apt install cryfs
GUI
Theres some GUI applications with CryFS support. You usually have to install the GUI and also CryFS itself for it to work.
- SiriKali
- Plasma Vault in KDE Plasma >= 5.11
Building from source
Requirements
- Git (for getting the source code)
- GCC version >= 5.0 or Clang >= 4.0
- CMake version >= 3.0
- libcurl4 (including development headers)
- Boost libraries version >= 1.56 (including development headers)
- filesystem
- system
- chrono
- program_options
- thread
- SSL development libraries (including development headers, e.g. libssl-dev)
- libFUSE version >= 2.8.6 (including development headers), on Mac OS X instead install osxfuse from https://osxfuse.github.io/
- Python >= 2.7
- OpenMP
You can use the following commands to install these requirements
# Ubuntu
$ sudo apt-get install git g++ cmake make libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-system-dev libboost-chrono-dev libboost-program-options-dev libboost-thread-dev libssl-dev libfuse-dev python
# Fedora
sudo dnf install git gcc-c++ cmake make libcurl-devel boost-devel boost-static openssl-devel fuse-devel python
# Macintosh
brew install cmake boost openssl libomp
Build & Install
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Clone repository
$ git clone https://github.com/cryfs/cryfs.git cryfs $ cd cryfs
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Build
$ mkdir cmake && cd cmake $ cmake .. $ make
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Install
$ sudo make install
You can pass the following variables to the cmake command (using -Dvariablename=value):
- -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=[Release|Debug]: Whether to run code optimization or add debug symbols. Default: Release
- -DBUILD_TESTING=[on|off]: Whether to build the test cases (can take a long time). Default: off
- -DCRYFS_UPDATE_CHECKS=off: Build a CryFS that doesn't check online for updates and security vulnerabilities.
Building on Windows (experimental)
Build with Visual Studio 2017 and pass in the following flags to CMake:
-DDOKAN_LIB_PATH=[dokan library location, e.g. "C:\Program Files\Dokan\DokanLibrary-1.1.0"] -DCURL_LIBRARY=[path to libcurl.dll.a, e.g. "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\curl\tools\curl-7.61.1-win64-mingw\lib\libcurl.dll.a"] -DCURL_INCLUDE_DIR=[path to libcurl include files, e.g. "C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\lib\curl\tools\curl-7.61.1-win64-mingw\include"] -DBOOST_ROOT=[path to root of boost installation]
Troubleshooting
On most systems, CMake should find the libraries automatically. However, that doesn't always work.
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Boost headers not found
Pass in the boost include path with
cmake .. -DBoost_INCLUDE_DIRS=/path/to/boost/headers
If you want to link boost dynamically (e.g. you don't have the static libraries), use the following:
cmake .. -DBoost_USE_STATIC_LIBS=off
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Fuse/Osxfuse library not found
Pass in the library path with
cmake .. -DFUSE_LIB_PATH=/path/to/fuse/or/osxfuse
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Fuse/Osxfuse headers not found
Pass in the include path with
cmake .. -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="-I/path/to/fuse/or/osxfuse/headers"
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Openssl headers not found
Pass in the include path with
cmake .. -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="-I/path/to/openssl/include"
Creating .deb and .rpm packages
There are additional requirements if you want to create packages. They are:
- CMake version >= 3.3
- rpmbuild for creating .rpm package
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Clone repository
$ git clone https://github.com/cryfs/cryfs.git cryfs $ cd cryfs
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Build
$ mkdir cmake && cd cmake $ cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTING=off $ make package
Disclaimer
On the event of a password leak, you are strongly advised to create a new filesystem and copy all the data over from the previous one. Done this, all copies of the compromised filesystem and config file must be removed (e.g, from the "previous versions" feature of your cloud system) to prevent access to the key (and, as a result, your data) using the leaked password.