StegFS is a
free
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steganographic file system for
Linux
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based on the
ext2
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filesystem. It is licensed under the
GPL. It was principally developed by
Andrew D. McDonald
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and
Markus G. Kuhn
Markus Guenther Kuhn (born 1971) is a German computer scientist, currently working at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge and a fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Education
Kuhn was educated at University of Erlangen (Germany ...
.
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
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This is in contrast to the full disk enc ...
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List of cryptographic file systems
Further reading
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External links
StegFSoriginal home page
StegFSdevelopment home page
StegFSresearch paper -(
PDF
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file)
StegFSSourceForge project page
Disk file systems
Free special-purpose file systems
File systems supported by the Linux kernel
Steganography
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