Comment 9 for bug 264977

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Chris Roddy (cmr) wrote :

I understand that there are challenges to implementing encryption of the file names, but as it stands now I would describe these tools as unreleasable. I encourage the maintainers to withdraw this package from the distribution until this glaring design defect can be corrected.

An encrypted directory that leaks the names, directory structure, and file sizes in plain text is almost completely useless, and is in many ways worse than simply trying to hide them with dotfiles and misdirection -- at least in that case, I'm not waving a gigantic red flag that says "hey! here's all my secret shit! here's how i keep it organized, what i call it, and how big each file is!"