List of cryptographic file systems
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This is a list of filesystems with support for filesystem-level encryption. Not to be confused with full-disk encryption.
General-purpose filesystems with encryption
[edit]- AdvFS on Digital Tru64 UNIX
- Novell Storage Services on Novell NetWare and Linux
- NTFS with Encrypting File System (EFS) for Microsoft Windows
- OpenZFS open source, in illumos, and from 2020 unified on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OSv
- ZFS proprietary, for Oracle Solaris, since Pool Version 30
- Ext4, added in Linux kernel 4.1[1] in June 2015
- F2FS, added in Linux kernel 4.2[2][non-primary source needed]
- UBIFS, added in Linux kernel 4.10[3]
- CephFS, added in Linux kernel 6.6[4]
- bcachefs (experimental), added in Linux kernel 6.7[5]
- APFS, macOS High Sierra (10.13) and later.
Cryptographic filesystems
[edit]| File system | Latest release |
|---|---|
| gocryptfs | 2025[6] |
| CryFS | 2025[7] |
| securefs | 2024[8] |
| Rclone | 2024[9] |
| Discontinued projects | |
| EncFS | 2018[10][11] |
| LessFS[12] | 2013[13] |
| MetFS[14] | 2012[14] |
| CryptoFS[15] | 2007[16] |
| Magikfs[17] | 2006[18] |
| PhoneBookFS[19] | 2004[20] |
Integrated into the Linux kernel
[edit]- eCryptfs[21]
- Rubberhose filesystem (discontinued)[22]
- StegFS (discontinued)
Integrated into other UNIXes
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Ext4 encryption [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Archived from the original on 19 February 2018. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
- ↑ "'[GIT PULL] f2fs updates for v4.2' - MARC".
- ↑ "Linux_4.10 - Linux Kernel Newbies". kernelnewbies.org. December 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
UBIFS: Add support for file encryption using the fscrypt framework.
- ↑ Jonathan Corbet (September 2023). "The rest of the 6.6 merge window [LWN.net]". lwn.net. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
The Ceph filesystem has gained fscrypt support.
- ↑ "Linux_6.7 - Linux Kernel Newbies". kernelnewbies.org. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
- ↑ "Release v2.6.1 · rfjakob/gocryptfs". GitHub. Retrieved 2025-12-19.
- ↑ "Release 1.0.3 · cryfs/cryfs". GitHub. Retrieved 2025-12-21.
- ↑ "Release 1.0.0 · netheril96/securefs". GitHub. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
- ↑ Craig-Wood, Nick (2024-03-10). "Rclone Changelog". rclone.org. Retrieved 2024-03-17.
- ↑ "Release v1.9.5 · vgough/encfs". GitHub. Retrieved 2023-08-20.
- ↑ "Update project status in README (#671) · vgough/encfs@aa106e6". GitHub. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
This project is NOT maintained.
- ↑ "Lessfs". Lessfs.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-30. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
- ↑ "lessfs - data deduplication for less - Browse Files at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2016-01-17. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- 1 2 "Metin KAYA - MetFS Encrypted, Dynamic Sized, Single File, FUSE Based Filesystem in Userspace". www.enderunix.org. Archived from the original on 2016-02-17. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ↑ "Reboot's personal page". reboot.github.io. Archived from the original on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ↑ "Reboot's personal page". reboot.github.io. Archived from the original on 2016-01-28. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ↑ "Magikfs – The Steganographic File System On Linux". magikfs.sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ↑ "magikfs-The steganographic filesystem - Browse Files at SourceForge.net". sourceforge.net. Archived from the original on 2016-03-08. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ↑ "Phonebook - Software to Make Your PC 'Police-Ready'". freenet.mcnabhosting.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-01-05.
- ↑ "Changelog for phonebook". Archived from the original on 2016-01-17.
- ↑ "eCryptfs in Launchpad". Launchpad.net. 20 August 2008. Archived from the original on 2014-02-09. Retrieved 2014-02-03.
- ↑ "Rubberhose disk encryption system". iq.org. Archived from the original on 2006-09-02.
- ↑ "Understanding EFS". www.ibm.com. 29 January 2008. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2018.
