https://stlLUG.sluug.org/ stlLUG =St. Louis Linux Users Group
Thus 20 Oct
Steven Lembark will walk us thru...
how to encrypt File systems in User SpacE (FUSE) for securing your private data. Both LOCAL & REMOTE.

He’ll show us how to set it up, mount it, back it up, and recover it.

In the beginning was LUKS, and it was good... enough.
It encrypted a filesystem but it required privileged
access and knowlege of LVM and encryption standards.
(Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) is a disk encryption specification created in 2004. It encrypts entire block devices and is therefore well-suited for protecting the contents of mobile devices such as removable storage media.)

Then came FUSE (File systems in User SpacE ). This allows a non-privileged user to mount filesystems using local code. The variety of
filesystems supported show just how useful the idea can be.

One early example encfs, which made it easy for non-
privileged users to access and encrypted filesystem.
Its an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs stackably in userspace, using the FUSE library for the filesystem interface. EncFS is open source.
Over time holes in its algorithm emerged and it became
un-maintained and is no longer secure. The good news
is, as every competent programmer knows, There's More
Than One Way To Do It. (At least 5!)

This talk looks at some alterntives to encfs, their
foibles, and how to use them.

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ONLINE MEETINGS ONLY until further notice.ONLINE session will use remote video software.HOW TO CONNECT instructions on https://stllug.sluug.org/ web page and our mailing lists. Note that your browser cache may need to be refreshed each time you check the above web page for the instructions.We will open the remote session at about 6:00 PM, so that you can join early to test your microphone, screen and video sharing.

The Saint Louis MO, STL Linux Users Group (STLLUG) meets monthly to talk about Linux. This GNU/Linux Users Group usually holds its meetings on the third Thursday of every month. Meetings are free and open to everyone.

At 6:45 PM we start with introductions, announcements, current events of interest, and a general CALL FOR HELP segment. Then we will go into the presentation of our main topic, sometime around or after 7:00 PM.