[Owncloud] encryption throught webdav with ecryptfs

[Daniel Holm]

Hi,

That sound lovely!

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Den mån 20 aug 2012 11:22:47 skrev Bjoern Schiessle:
> Hi Jörn,
>
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 13:55:05 +0200 Jörn Friedrich Dreyer wrote:
>> I was reading up on using ecryptfs to encrypt some of my files in my
>> ~./owncloud foulder mounted with webdav. It turns out there is a bug
>> lurking around that might make it impossible for now:
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ecryptfs/+bug/277578
>>
>> I also came across a nice article on how ecryptfs works:
>> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9400
>>
>> It describes some of the design goals like sharing encrypted files so
>> I thought I'd point out on the list that there has already been done
>> a lot of work in that direction. Unfortunately, I did not find a php
>> implementation for ecryptfs, but I think owncloud and ecryptfs are
>> trying to achieve the same goal here.
>>
>> What is the status for public private key based encrypted sharing
>> anyway?
>
> Sam and I are working on public/private key based encryption which will
> also allow sharing of encrypted files. We are using openSSL for it
> since it is available on every server and web hosting platform. We are
> planing to introduce this feature in ownCloud 5.
>
> cheers,
> Björn
>