List of cryptographic file systems

This is a list of filesystems with support for filesystem-level encryption.

General-purpose filesystems with encryption

• Novell Storage Services on Novell NetWare
• NTFS with Encrypting File System (EFS) for Microsoft Windows
• ZFS filesystem encryption is due for integration in Q1 2010

Cryptographic filesystems

• FUSE-based file systems

  • CryptoFS (last released 3.2.2007 - http://reboot78.re.funpic.de/cryptofs/)
  • EncFS (http://www.arg0.net/encfs)
  • MetFS (http://www.enderunix.org/metfs/)
  • PhoneBookFS (http://www.freenet.org.nz/phonebook/)
  • Magikfs (http://magikfs.sourceforge.net)
  • LessFS (http://www.lessfs.com/)

• Mac

  • MacOS 10.7 Lion has built-in support for full-disk encryption (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790)

• Linux

  • eCryptfs (http://launchpad.net/ecryptfs)
  • Rubberhose filesystem (discontinued, http://iq.org/~proff/rubberhose.org/)
  • StegFS (discontinued)

• Other UNIX

  • AdvFS on Digital Tru64 UNIX
  • EVFS on HP-UX (Encrypted Virtual File System, [1])
  • PEFS on FreeBSD (https://github.com/glk/pefs)
  • GELI on FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=geli&sektion=8)
  • GBDE on FreeBSD (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=gbde&sektion=8)

See also

• OTFE