CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION: FS Encryption (Per-file encryption)

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION has multiple definitions:

FS Encryption (Per-file encryption) found in fs/crypto/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION:

• prompt: FS Encryption (Per-file encryption)
• type: bool
• depends on: (none)
• defined in fs/crypto/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 5.1–5.19, 6.0–6.17, 6.18-rc+HEAD
• modules built: fscrypto

Help text

Enable encryption of files and directories. This feature is similar to ecryptfs, but it is more memory efficient since it avoids caching the encrypted and decrypted pages in the page cache. Currently Ext4, F2FS, UBIFS, and CephFS make use of this feature.

FS Encryption (Per-file encryption) found in fs/crypto/Kconfig

The configuration item CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION:

• prompt: FS Encryption (Per-file encryption)
• type: tristate
• depends on: (none)
• defined in fs/crypto/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.6–4.20, 5.0
• modules built: fscrypto

Help text

Enable encryption of files and directories. This feature is similar to ecryptfs, but it is more memory efficient since it avoids caching the encrypted and decrypted pages in the page cache.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module fscrypto CONFIG_FS_ENCRYPTION : fs/crypto/Kconfig : "FS Encryption (Per-file encryption)" # in 4.6–4.20, 5.0

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The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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