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filesystem. It is licensed under the GPL. 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. 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 ...


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External links


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original home page
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development home page
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research paper -( PDF file)
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SourceForge project page Disk file systems Free special-purpose file systems File systems supported by the Linux kernel Steganography {{linux-stub