---
title: "An Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Golang"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/an-encrypted-overlay-filesystem-written-in-golang-ys0rpj9w9
source_url: https://golangexample.com/an-encrypted-overlay-filesystem-written-in-golang/
type: article
source: "Golang Example"
published: 2022-01-02T08:02:23.924Z
updated: 2022-01-02T08:02:23.924Z
tags: ["golang"]
reading_time: 16
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# An Encrypted overlay filesystem written in Golang

**[Golang Example](https://daily.dev/sources/golangexample)** · 16 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Gocryptfs is an encrypted overlay filesystem written in Go. It was inspired by EncFS and strives to fix its security issues while providing good performance (benchmarks) It has gone through hours and hours of stress (fsstress, extractloop.bash) and correctness testing. It is now considered ready for general consumption.

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