On Sunday 26 November 2006 19:40, Mail List wrote: > On Sunday 26 November 2006 16:22, William Case wrote: > > Hi; > > > > Need suggestions for a good lockbox -- a specialized application or an > > appropriate technique for locking away sensitive personal information. > > I'd recommend instead using encrypted file system - such as fuse-encfs - FYI - strength of encryption - encfs gives you lots of control over the cipher algorithm and key length - the default (fc6) seems to be AES 256 bit. % encfsctl ~/Private/.secret Version 5 configuration; created by EncFS 1.3.1 (revision 20040813) Filesystem cipher: "ssl/aes", version 2:1:1 Filename encoding: "nameio/block", version 3:0:1 Key Size: 256 bits Block Size: 512 bytes, including 8 byte MAC header Each file contains 8 byte header with unique IV data. Filenames encoded using IV chaining mode. File data IV is chained to filename IV.
