---
id: 4556
title: "A glimpse of ext4 filesystem-level encryption"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/a-glimpse-of-ext4-filesystem-level-encryption.html"
published_at: "2015-08-04T22:00:00Z"
tags: ["linux", "android", "cryptography", "encryption", "filesystem", "ext4"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4556"
lang: en
---

# A glimpse of ext4 filesystem-level encryption

## Summary

A peek at ext4 filesystem-level encryption in Linux 4.1: Google's per-directory scheme, the ext4-crypt userspace tool, and why the author calls the implementation unstable and not production-ready.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2015-08-04T22:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/a-glimpse-of-ext4-filesystem-level-encryption.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4556