command line utility to encrypt/decrypt files
Bug #887254 reported by
Dustin Kirkland
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eCryptfs |
Triaged
|
Wishlist
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
It would be nice if ecryptfs-utils provided a command line utility that could encrypt and decrypt eCryptfs files in userspace. This would be handy as both a crude recovery utility, as well as for testing/
This should be pretty doable using Python and the basic crypto algorithms. I'm filing this bug here, to track the work, and record any implementation discussions in the public.
| Changed in ecryptfs: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
Revision history for this message
| Tyler Hicks (tyhicks) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Patrick Taylor (pdtpatrick) wrote | #2 |
To post a comment you must log in.
In the short-term it would be nice to have something quickly written up in python. It could simply support the most common use case - files encrypted with a symmetric key using aes-128. Of course, it would need to be smart enough to know not to blindly decrypt a file that was encrypted with another cipher.
In the long-term it would be nice to have more robust eCryptfs metadata parsing code, in libecryptfs, that a simple python command line utility could call to intelligently handle decryption of any eCryptfs file.