StegFS

StegFS

Full name	steganographic file system
Introduced	with Linux kernel
Other
Supported operating systems	Linux

StegFS is a free steganographic file system for Linux based on the ext2 filesystem. It is licensed under the GPL. It was principally developed by Andrew D. McDonald and Markus G. Kuhn.

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

• Filesystem-level encryption
• List of cryptographic file systems

Further reading

• Anderson, Ross; Needham, Roger; Shamir, Adi (1998). The Steganographic File System. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1525. pp. 73–82. doi:10.1007/3-540-49380-8_6. ISBN 978-3-540-65386-8. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/stego-fs.pdf. 
• McDonald, Andrew D.; Kuhn, Markus G. (2000). StegFS: A Steganographic File System for Linux. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1768. pp. 463–477. doi:10.1007/10719724_32. ISBN 978-3-540-67182-4. http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ih99-stegfs.pdf. 

External links

• StegFS original home page
• StegFS development home page
• StegFS research paper -(PDF file)
• StegFS SourceForge project page