Pefs-kmod

Jul 20, 2023

PEFS kernel level stacked cryptographic filesystem

PEFS is a kernel level stacked cryptographic filesystem for FreeBSD.

Key features

  • Transparently runs on top of existing file systems
  • Random per file tweak value for encryption
  • Stores metadata only in encrypted file name
  • Arbitrary number of keys per file system, mixing keys in same directory and key chains
  • Modern cryptographic algorithms AES and Camellia in XTS mode, PKCS#5v2 and HKDF for key generation.

See also https//github.com/freebsd-pefs/pefs



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