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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by edvinbesic on Saturday July 20, 2013 @09:30PM (#6077390)
Interesting, does this allow for incremental updates while encrypted?
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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by e12e on Saturday July 20, 2013 @10:05PM (#6077484)
Encfs is pretty opaque -- afaik modifying a file will at least change an entire block, possibly the entire file. Two identical files will look completely different (per file IVs) -- so no deduplicaton is possible.

But adding and removing files works as expected, so adding a few files to the encfs system, should translate to the same number of files added to the underlying folder.

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Re:Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox clone by Tho85 on Sunday July 21, 2013 @05:24AM (#6078329)
EncFS allows to deactivate some of these features at the price of reduced security. The EncFS manpage [1] has a good explanation of all the tunables. If you want to use Boxcryptor, you're even advised to deactivate most of these features [2].

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/encfs

[2] https://boxcryptor.desk.com/customer/portal/articles/565934

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