Everything about Encrypting File System

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Encrypting File SystemA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: File Encryption by Iris Recognition SystemInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Visual cryptography and secret image sharingThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Distributed Encrypting File System for Linux in User-spaceCited 0 times
5. Go sideways: Data Protection APIA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Database encryptionA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Distributed Encrypting File System for Linux in User-space

  U. S. Rawat, Shishir Kumar · 2012 · International Journal of Computer Network and Information Security · 0 citations

• Encrypting the File System on a Single-Board Computers Platform and Using Linux Unified Key Setup With Physical Access Keys

  Lviv Polytechnic National University, Bohdan Onishchenko, Roman Banakh · 2024 · Advances in Cyber-Physical Systems · 0 citations

• ANALYSIS OF METHODS FOR ENCRYPTING VIDEO RECORDER FILE SYSTEMS TO OPTIMIZE DIGITAL FORENSICS RESEARCH METHODS

  L. Rzayeva, G. Abitova, K. Niyazaliyev · 2025 · Bulletin of Shakarim University. Technical Sciences · 0 citations

• File Encryption System

  Tanmayee Jadhav, Sayali Jadhav · 2026 · International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology · 0 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• File Encryption by Iris Recognition System

  College Of Computing And Information Sciences, University Of Technology And Applied Sciences, Sultanate Of Oman, Musab A. M. Ali, Department of Cybersecurity, International Information Technology University, Almaty, Kazakhstan · 2024 · Jurnal Kejuruteraan · 0 citations

• Secure File Encryption And Distribution System

  · 2026 · International Research Journal of Modernization in Engineering Technology & Science · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Visual cryptography and secret image sharingStelvio Cimato · 2011
• Advances in Digital Forensics VIIIGilbert Peterson · 2012
• Windows Internet securitySeth Fogie, Cyrus Peikari · 2001
• PGP source code and internalsPhilip Zimmermann · 1995
• Protecting Oracle Database 12cPaul Wright · 2014
• Secure Messaging with PGP and S/MIMERolf Oppliger · 2000
• Writing secure code for Windows VistaMichael Howard, David LeBlanc · 2007
• 📕Pretty good privacy 3.0 pre-alpha source code, preliminary release 1.1Philip Zimmermann · 1996

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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