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F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org to c/fdroid@lemmy.ml

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[–] Ferk@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Apparently, encfs is not maintained anymore either.

EncFS has been dormant for a long time now. I haven't used or worked on EncFS in many years. I've left the repository here because I don't want to prevent anyone from using it if they have a need that can't be met otherwise. I'm sure that I have some very old backups that would still require EncFS to access, so I expect that I might have to compile it again someday.

Don't expect any updates on this project. You're free to fork it, of course, but remember that this is a 20+yr old codebase which was only funded by personal interest, so I wouldn't expect it to live up to modern-day coding standards.

If you're considering setting up a new encrypted filesystem wrapper, I'd recommend looking into newer alternatives, such as the excellent GoCryptFS.

DroidFS is on F-Droid and supports gocryptfs.

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I know. But it works and the security issue found is not applicable for my use case. I've been using it for too many years and it will be a pain to move.

But I knew the day would come and I guess fdroid dropping it means that this is it. I'm actually surprised there were option for encfs for so long.