Everything about EncFS

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: EncFSA 5-minute orientation
2. Pick up a classic book: Design und Implementierung Einer Encfs-Komp. VerschlusselungsschichtThe most-reprinted book on the subject
3. Read the landmark paper: The Vulnerability Improvement Research Using Pseudo-Random Number Generator Scheme in EncFSCited 0 times
4. Go sideways: Filesystem-level encryptionA closely related topic
5. Go sideways: Comparison of file systemsA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• The Vulnerability Improvement Research Using Pseudo-Random Number Generator Scheme in EncFS

  Won-Seok Jeong, Jaeyeol Jeong, Ik Rae Jeong · 2016 · Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security and Cryptology · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Design und Implementierung Einer Encfs-Komp. VerschlusselungsschichtChristian Olbrich · 2014

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