List of cryptographic file systems

This is a list of filesystems with support for filesystem-level encryption. Not to be confused with full-disk encryption.

General-purpose filesystems with encryption

• AdvFS on Digital Tru64 UNIX
• Novell Storage Services on Novell NetWare and Linux
• NTFS with Encrypting File System (EFS) for Microsoft Windows
• ZFS since Pool Version 30
• Ext4, added in Linux kernel 4.1^[1] in June 2015
• F2FS, added in Linux kernel 4.2^{[2][non-primary source needed]}
• UBIFS, added in Linux kernel 4.10^[3]
• CephFS, added in Linux kernel 6.6^[4]
• bcachefs (experimental), added in Linux kernel 6.7^[5]
• APFS, macOS High Sierra (10.13) and later.

Cryptographic filesystems

FUSE-based file systems

File system	Latest release
gocryptfs	2023[6]
CryFS	2023[7]
securefs	2024[8]
Rclone	2024[9]
Discontinued projects
EncFS	2018[10][11]
LessFS[12]	2013[13]
MetFS[14]	2012[14]
CryptoFS[15]	2007[16]
Magikfs[17]	2006[18]
PhoneBookFS[19]	2004[20]

Integrated into the Linux kernel

• eCryptfs^[21]
• Rubberhose filesystem (discontinued)^[22]
• StegFS (discontinued)

Integrated into other UNIXes

• geli on FreeBSD
• EFS (Encrypted File System) on AIX^[23]

See also

• Comparison of disk encryption software