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securefs
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netheril96 / securefs

securefs

Filesystem in userspace (FUSE) with transparent authenticated encryption

4Distinct people
18Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
841GitHub stars
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Filesystem in userspace (FUSE) with transparent authenticated encryption

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year18 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2015-06-08 15:08:27 UTC to 2023-01-22 09:29:40 UTC.

0123452015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 1 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC514
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Show HN: Secure management of files in Windows,Linux,MAC using SiriKali+securefs

securefs[1] is a command line tool and it works on Linux, Windows and MACOS. This tool does folder based encryption. SiriKali[2] is a Qt/C++ based GUI tool that acts as a front end to securefs and it works on Linux, Windows and MACOS. These two tools make secure management of files between the three operating systems and cloud storages very easy. [1] https://github.com/netheril96/securefs [2] https://mhogomchungu.github.io/sirikali/
2 points · Open discussion
I wrote a competing implementation (I wasn't aware of gocryptfs before) at https://github.com/netheril96/securefs. Many points are similar: for example, a random file ID, 4KiB blocks encrypted with AES-GCM mixed with the ID and block number, sparse file support. The major difference is * The directory structure. GoCryptFS goes the easy route of encrypting filenames, while mine has its own directory implementation independent of the underlying filesystem. Mine is theoretically safer as it never reuses the IV, but the safety margin is probably so slim that it doesn't matter in practice. * In addition to authenticating each blocks individually, mine has a HMAC that authenticates the concatenation of all block level IVs and GHASHs. It prevents the attack where replacing a block with its past revision does not show up as invalid.
In GoCryptFS: encrypting FUSE filesystem in Go

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