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[![gocryptfs](https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/img/gocryptfs-logo.paths-black.svg)](https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/) [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/rfjakob/gocryptfs.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/rfjakob/gocryptfs) ![MIT License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg)
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==============
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An encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go.
Official website: https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs
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gocryptfs is built on top the excellent
[go-fuse](https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse) FUSE library and its
LoopbackFileSystem API.
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This project was inspired by EncFS and strives to fix its security
issues while providing good performance.
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For details on the security of gocryptfs see the
[Security](https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/security/) design document.
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All tags from v0.4 onward are signed by the *gocryptfs signing key*.
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Please check [Signed Releases](https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/releases/) for
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details.
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Current Status
--------------
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gocryptfs is a young project. While bugs in any software can cause issues,
bugs in encryption software can cause catastrophic data loss. Keep a backup
of your gocryptfs filesystem *and* store a copy of your master key (printed
on mount) in a safe place.
Only Linux is supported at the moment. [Help wanted for a Mac OS X port.](https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/15)
Testing
-------
gocryptfs comes with is own test suite that is constantly expanded as features are
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added. Run it using `./test.bash`. It takes about 1 minute and requires FUSE
as it mounts several test filesystems.
In addition, I have ported `xfstests` to FUSE, the result is the
[fuse-xfstests](https://github.com/rfjakob/fuse-xfstests) project. gocryptfs
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passes the "generic" tests with one exception, results: [XFSTESTS.md](Documentation/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.
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Compile
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-------
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$ go get github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
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Use
---
$ mkdir cipher plain
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$ $GOPATH/bin/gocryptfs -init cipher
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$ $GOPATH/bin/gocryptfs cipher plain
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See the [Quickstart](https://nuetzlich.net/gocryptfs/quickstart/) page for more info.
The [MANPAGE.md](Documentation/MANPAGE.md) containes a description of available command-line options.
If you already have gocryptfs installed, run `./MANPAGE-render.bash` to bring up the rendered manpage in
your man pager (requires pandoc).
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Storage Overhead
----------------
* Empty files take 0 bytes on disk
* 18 byte file header for non-empty files (2 bytes version, 16 bytes random file id)
* 28 bytes of storage overhead per 4kB block (12 byte nonce, 16 bytes auth tag)
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[file-format.md](Documentation/file-format.md) contains a more detailed description.
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Performance
-----------
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).
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Run `./benchmark.bash` to run the benchmarks.
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The output should look like this:
```
$ ./benchmark.bash
linux-3.0.tar.gz 100%[===========================>] 92,20M 2,96MB/s in 35s
2016-01-23 20:08:11 URL:https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.0.tar.gz [...]
WRITE: 131072000 bytes (131 MB) copied, 1,36225 s, 96,2 MB/s
UNTAR: 23.16
LS: 1.71
RM: 4.36
```
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Changelog
---------
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v0.8
* Redirect output to syslog when running in the background
* New command-line option:
* `-memprofile`: Write a memory allocation debugging profile the specified
file
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v0.7.2
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* **Fix performance issue in small file creation**
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* This brings performance on-par with EncFS paranoia mode, with streaming writes
significantly faster
* The actual [fix](https://github.com/hanwen/go-fuse/commit/c4b6b7949716d13eec856baffc7b7941ae21778c)
is in the go-fuse library. There are no code changes in gocryptfs.
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v0.7.1
* Make the `build.bash` script compatible with Go 1.3
* Disable fallocate on OSX (system call not availabe)
* Introduce pre-built binaries for Fedora 23 and Debian 8
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v0.7
* **Extend GCM IV size to 128 bit from Go's default of 96 bit**
* This pushes back the birthday bound to make IV collisions virtually
impossible
* This is a forwards-compatible change. gocryptfs v0.7 can mount filesystems
created by earlier versions but not the other way round.
* New command-line option:
* `-gcmiv128`: Use 128-bit GCM IVs (default true)
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v0.6
* **Wide-block filename encryption using EME + DirIV**
* EME (ECB-Mix-ECB) provides even better security than CBC as it fixes
the prefix leak. The used Go EME implementation is
https://github.com/rfjakob/eme which is, as far as I know, the first
implementation of EME in Go.
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* This is a forwards-compatible change. gocryptfs v0.6 can mount filesystems
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created by earlier versions but not the other way round.
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* New command-line option:
* `-emenames`: Enable EME filename encryption (default true)
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v0.5.1
* Fix a rename regression caused by DirIV and add test case
* Use fallocate to guard against out-of-space errors
v0.5
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* **Stronger filename encryption: DirIV**
* Each directory gets a random 128 bit file name IV on creation,
stored in `gocryptfs.diriv`
* This makes it impossible to identify identically-named files across
directories
* A single-entry IV cache brings the performance cost of DirIV close to
zero for common operations (see performance.txt)
* This is a forwards-compatible change. gocryptfs v0.5 can mount filesystems
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created by earlier versions but not the other way round.
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* New command-line option:
* `-diriv`: Use the new per-directory IV file name encryption (default true)
* `-scryptn`: allows to set the scrypt cost parameter N. This option
can be used for faster mounting at the cost of lower brute-force
resistance. It was mainly added to speed up the automated tests.
v0.4
* New command-line options:
* `-plaintextnames`: disables filename encryption, added on user request
* `-extpass`: calls an external program for prompting for the password
* `-config`: allows to specify a custom gocryptfs.conf path
* Add `FeatureFlags` gocryptfs.conf paramter
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* This is a config format change, hence the on-disk format is incremented
* Used for ext4-style filesystem feature flags. This should help avoid future
format changes. The first user is `-plaintextnames`.
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* On-disk format 2
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v0.3
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* **Add a random 128 bit file header to authenticate file->block ownership**
* This is an on-disk-format change
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* On-disk format 1
v0.2
* Replace bash daemonization wrapper with native Go implementation
* Better user feedback on mount failures
v0.1
* First release
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* On-disk format 0
See https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/tags for the release dates and associated
git tags.