Introduction

EncFSVault provides a replacement for Apple's FileVault. The EncFSVault provides seamless integration into the login system for Leopard and has also been back ported to Tiger. You can also chose to have EncFS encrypt other directories or removable drives, see the EncFS MacFusion section for more information.

EncFSVault only provides the mechanism for the FileVault not the actual encfs program or fuse libraries. They must be installed before using the EncFS based FileVault. You can find more information on MacFUSE on Google Code and the EncFS packages are the download section. EncFSVault is not limited to the version of EncFS listed in the downloads section. You should be able to use any version of EncFS provide it's compatible with the version of MacFuse that you have installed. The EncFS package in the downloads section is compatible with MacFuse 1.1.0 and higher.

Screen Shot

Here is a screen shot of Zod's encrypted home directory running on Leopard.

Examples

Here is Zod's home folder (/Users/zod) when user Zod is logged in

$ ls -l
total 72
drwx------ 3 zod staff 102 Nov 23 18:39 Desktop
drwx------ 4 zod staff 136 Nov 23 18:39 Documents
drwx------ 4 zod staff 136 Nov 23 18:39 Downloads
drwx------ 42 zod staff 1326 Nov 24 14:08 Library
drwx------ 3 zod staff 102 Nov 23 18:39 Movies
drwx------ 3 zod staff 102 Nov 23 18:39 Music
drwx------ 4 zod staff 136 Nov 23 18:39 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 6 zod staff 204 Nov 23 18:40 Public
drwxr-xr-x 5 zod staff 170 Nov 23 18:39 Sites

Here is Zod's home folder (/Users/.zod) when user Zod is not logged in

$ ls -l
total 80
-rwxr-xr-x 1 zod staff 236 Nov 23 18:39 2Aaqeq9T2ykLMnFQ2m3KI,VK
drwx------ 4 zod staff 136 Nov 23 18:39 30dc5gfpzvessS1IzDG25CWs
drwxr-xr-x 6 zod staff 204 Nov 23 18:40 6wPrGhlRM-v828BRXtyHMe1V
-rwx------ 1 zod staff 236 Nov 23 18:39 7GgKPM8fVV-Ir35eddTLnheN
-rwx------ 1 zod staff 236 Nov 23 18:39 7fGy7xr8xDsakYGvXtU0Ay-F
-rwx------ 1 zod staff 236 Nov 23 18:39 HMVVQBZgwbk0N9ff5Ggm7hYv
drwx------ 4 zod staff 136 Nov 23 18:39 JlHfoZ,Cj4JfJqP89lWqJ98g
drwx------ 2 zod staff 68 Nov 24 14:08 Qs,bHteaFX4mAQDStPii86Mp
drwxr-xr-x 5 zod staff 170 Nov 23 18:39 RGLgvOaQQHIRMoYTIMmQjQAO
drwx------ 4 zod staff 136 Nov 23 18:39 U,pbOKybXPtEiVvZPDxy,pXu
-rw------- 1 zod staff 11 Nov 23 18:39 WHc,xi0wIOR0aTZ3bSbhOiunGahuAK33tksXL9zdxPIPV1
-rw------- 1 zod staff 6156 Nov 24 14:08 d,4vlqoWuMJQYKo9hDrAmoqd
-rwx------ 1 zod staff 236 Nov 23 18:39 deag7gzqiDn,KVOp1D6BW6X4
drwx------ 3 zod staff 102 Nov 23 18:39 gip5arQGMQ9IF97ftxN,sqhC
drwx------ 3 zod staff 102 Nov 23 18:39 lrW7IWNPyntQw2eHwvciGg,N
-rwx------ 1 zod staff 236 Nov 23 18:39 mGlsiDNSk1KW7GXhToGTcogK
drwx------ 3 zod staff 102 Nov 23 18:39 mlXQJvqGsdN9yMjdlwuCkLDy
drwx------ 42 zod staff 1428 Nov 24 14:08 nW2LrCScr7ZRiP4hx2Wauitd
-rwx------ 1 zod staff 236 Nov 23 18:39 tB9emlzjiByVG-RwAn6,OD2i
-rw-r--r-- 1 zod staff 0 Nov 23 18:40 yabgA0Su5nWWmfGLvbp8R0l5