zhanghai / zhanghai/MaterialFiles
gocryptfs Support
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- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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Description
GoCryptFS is a file-level encrypted file system. There's a C++ implementation available.
Support for this would allow secure end to end encryption of files stored on cloud providers (including a shared NAS). Some file managers support EncFS which is now considered not secure. DroidFS talks about some difficulties in dealing with this because libgocryptfs uses syscalls which means it cannot use the ContentProvider API to open cloud providers.
I'm hoping that this project might be able to implement this given that it seems to also be using the syscalls rather than the ContentProvider API to access files and has support for SFTP storage.
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First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the existing SFTP storage support and how MaterialFiles accesses files through syscalls versus the ContentProvider API. Compare the integration constraints described by DroidFS and libgocryptfs, then define what GoCryptFS support would require and how encrypted cloud and shared-NAS files would be opened and managed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile, security
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100