StegFS is a
free steganographic file system Steganographic file systems are a kind of file system first proposed by Ross Anderson, Roger Needham, and Adi Shamir. Their paper proposed two main methods of hiding data: in a series of fixed size files originally consisting of random bits on to ...
for
Linux
Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...
based on the
ext2
The ext2 or second extended file system is a file system for the Linux kernel. It was initially designed by French software developer Rémy Card as a replacement for the extended file system (ext). Having been designed according to the same ...
filesystem. It is licensed under the
GPL
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. It was principally developed by
Andrew D. McDonald and
Markus G. Kuhn.
The last version of StegFS is 1.1.4, released February 14, 2001. This is a development release, with known bugs, such as a file corruption bug. There is no stable release. The last website activity was in 2004. In 2003, Andreas C. Petter and Sebastian Urbach intended to continue development of StegFS, and created a site for it on
SourceForge.net
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. The development has further moved to using FUSE library, and working releases are available from the development homepage.
See also
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Filesystem-level encryption
Filesystem-level encryption, often called file-based encryption, FBE, or file/folder encryption, is a form of disk encryption where individual files or directories are encrypted by the file system itself.
This is in contrast to the full disk enc ...
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List of cryptographic file systems
This is a list of filesystems with support for filesystem-level encryption. Not to be confused with full-disk encryption.
General-purpose filesystems with encryption
* AdvFS on Digital Tru64 UNIX
* Novell Storage Services on Novell NetWare and ...
Further reading
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External links
StegFSoriginal home page
StegFSdevelopment home page
StegFSresearch paper -(
PDF
Portable Document Format (PDF), standardized as ISO 32000, is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. ...
file)
StegFSSourceForge project page
Disk file systems
Free special-purpose file systems
File systems supported by the Linux kernel
Steganography
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