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There is only one free-as-in-beer FDE project that has survived the last decade (loop-AES), out of dozens. The one other survivor (dm-crypt) is backed by seriou
by eliteraspberrie 12y ago
There is only one free-as-in-beer FDE project that has survived the last decade (loop-AES), out of dozens. The one other survivor (dm-crypt) is backed by serious money (the Linux Foundation). It's safe to assume the odds won't get better in the next decade.
That is, unless we support freely-licensed encryption software, financially, rather than just use it.
- ultramancool 12y agoNonsense. ecryptfs has been around almost that long even. And regardless, the maintenance for proprietary FDE products is not much better. Many go in and out of cycle, obsolescence is just a part of software, but there's been 1 or more good encryption options available for a long time.
- eliteraspberrie 12y agoDevelopment of eCryptfs was financed by IBM.
- dustinkirkland 12y agoAnd both current maintainers of eCryptfs work for Canonical.