Talk:Encrypting File System

message: Why does CryptFS redirect to this page?  The *Nix FS and the Win FS is different. 74.121.106.7 16:04, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  CryptFS 

message: Are the statements listed there "misunderstandigs" i.e.  false, or are they true ?
--Xerces8 19:20, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of them are definitely false (at least in XP, do not have enough knowledge about 2k). Don't know about the rest. Also they are uncited. So, I think, they should probably be removed for now pending citing and verification. --soum talk 07:58, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the section; I agree, they're very ambiguous and unsourced. -- intgr [talk] 13:25, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common misunderstandings about EFS ? 

message: There is an error while saying that Windows Premium includes EFS.
As seen here: http://www.microsoft.com/latam/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/choose.mspx
Windows Home Preimum does not support it  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.77.128.111 (talk) 15:32, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Versions with EFS 

message: I'd appreciate a discussion somewhere in the article of the difference between Bitlocker and EFS.  Tempshill (talk) 00:07, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, me to. If I remember it and have time, I'll do it (if it's not already there). The simple explanation is that Bitlocker encrypts an entire partition, for whatever it's worth over network, while EFS is an NTFS addition that provides some automatic single-file encryption for most entities saved in an encryption marked directory, for whatever it's worth over network. In my mind, a reliable encryption system does this in a similar way as EFS, but does never decrypt a file before sending it over a network, instead the file is sent encrypted over the network and decrypted locally in a user-invisible cache, which is automagically overwritten by the system when the user saves and closes the file. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 16:40, 30 September 2011 (UTC)

text: That's right we should surely mention Bitlocker in the article. EFS is a feature provided by the NTFS file system and should work independently of the operating system as long as the O/S supports this NTFS feature, whereas Bitlocker is a program included in some versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system and doesn't involve the NTFS EFS feature. So, the EFS feature is more low-level and thus more direct than the Bitlocker feature. In theory, if you had another O/S which could work with NTFS then it could also work with EFS encryption whereas it wouldn't work with Bitlocker encryption, unless it also had its own program implementing Bitlocker's capabilities. Sofia Koutsouveli (talk) 17:46, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  EFS and Bitlocker 

message: The security section is a bit vague to me.  It says there are "two significant security vulnerabilities in Windows 2000" but doesn't explicitly state what those are.  Also if anyone could add if these are still an issue in later versions, i think it would be quite helpful.
TizzyFoe (talk) 18:23, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security Section 

message: Is there any reason, except the usual Win-mismodularity, that makes it impossible to compress an EFS-encrypted file? Manually compressing a file by say gzip, and then encrypting it should provide no problem whatsoever, but why is it impossible in the Win7 file properties dialog? Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 16:33, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: EFS vs Compression

message: The article has a heavy bias in favor of Microsoft. It mentions in detail all different shades and brands of encrypting file systems in Windows and neglects other operating systems, which have more advanced encrypting file systems. On the other hand it fails to mention all threats posed by the Microsoft solution (such as backdoors and the impossibility to do an independent code and security review since the source code is not published)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.207.215.193 (talk) 12:16, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You've evidently confused this article on an NTFS feature with a survey article on filesystem-level encryption. The "heavy bias" is in fact topicality. Yappy2bhere (talk) 23:58, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What could we do to overcome the systemic bias you describe? Can you point to some sources that we can use as references to include neutral information in the article and make it unbiased? Sofia Koutsouveli (talk) 17:39, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Systemic bias

message: Does the Windows 7+ implementation utilise AES-NI instructions?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.132.10.250 (talk) 14:23, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  AES-NI support? 

message: Android (specifically Samsung devices) has a partition called EFS, which is reportedly an acronym for Encrypting File System. However, in Android, EFS stores IMEI, MAC addresses, and other network & connectivity related data.
This should be disambiguated. On a similar note, Amazon EC2 uses a FS called EFS that stands for Elastic File System. ¬Hexafluoride (talk) 13:06, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  EFS in Android 

message: But, no official infomation. --211.127.228.179 (talk) 16:48, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Build 10547 adds EFS on exFAT. But, no official infomation.--211.127.228.179 (talk) 15:31, 19 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  EFS available on FAT* except exFAT in Windows 10. 

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