An encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go.
gocryptfs is built on top the excellent go-fuse FUSE library and its LoopbackFileSystem API.
This project was inspired by EncFS and strives to fix its security issues (see EncFS tickets 9, 13, 14, 16). For details on the security of gocryptfs see the SECURITY.md document.
- Feature-complete and working
- Passes the fuse-xfstests "generic" tests with one exception, results: 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. This is a limitation in go-fuse, check out hanwen/go-fuse#55 for details.
- However, gocryptfs needs more real-world testing - please report any issues via github.
- Only Linux operation has been tested. Help wanted for Mac OS X verification.
$ go get github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
$ mkdir cipher plain
$ $GOPATH/bin/gocryptfs --init cipher
[...]
$ $GOPATH/bin/gocryptfs cipher plain
[...]
$ echo test > plain/test.txt
$ ls -l cipher
total 8
-rw-rw-r--. 1 user user 33 7. Okt 23:23 0ao8Hyyf1A-A88sfNvkUxA==
-rw-rw-r--. 1 user user 233 7. Okt 23:23 gocryptfs.conf
$ fusermount -u plain
- 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)
- uses openssl through spacemonkeygo/openssl
for a 3x speedup compared to
crypto/cipher(see go-vs-openssl.md for details
Run ./benchmark.bash to run the test suite and the streaming read/write
benchmark. The benchmark is run twice, first with native Go crypto and
second using openssl.
The output should look like this:
$ ./benchmark.bash
[...]
BenchmarkStreamWrite 100 11816665 ns/op 88.74 MB/s
BenchmarkStreamRead 200 7848155 ns/op 133.61 MB/s
ok github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs 9.407s
v0.3
- Add file header that contains a random id to authenticate blocks
- This is an on-disk-format change
- On-disk format 1
v0.2
- Replace bash daemonization wrapper with native Go implementation
- Better user feedback on mount failures
v0.1
- First release
- On-disk format 0
See https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/releases for the release dates and associated tags.