zboxfs/zbox
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Zero-details, privacy-focused in-app file system.
14 mentions on Hacker News by 5 people: 3 stories, 11 comments · first 2017-12-06 · latest 2023-07-18
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I am building an encrypted file system that runs inside application ( https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox ). It focus on security, privacy and reliability. The interesting part is it can utilize different storage, such as memory, OS file…
comment by burmecia · 2020-01-29 · in Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on? -
…as storage, for example sqlite, might be a good idea. That’s exactly what I did in ZboxFS ( https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox ) which can use sqlite as a underlying storage to achieve ACID compatible behaviours.
comment by burmecia · 2019-12-02 · in Files Are Hard (2015) -
I am using Rust building a privacy focused in-app file system ZboxFS( https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox ). The fun part is not only joyfulness Rust bring to me, but also learned a lot about cryptography, file system, transaction control and…
comment by burmecia · 2019-09-14 · in Ask HN: What are you building with Rust? for fun or profit -
…deal with. Many filesystems are able to use DB as back-end, I also made a filesystem ZboxFS ( https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox ) which can also use sqlite as underlying storage.
comment by burmecia · 2019-07-10 · in Database as Filesystem [video] -
…dedup and compression on client side. I made an in-app file system dedicated for that purpose. https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox
comment by burmecia · 2019-07-06 · in How I encrypt my data in the cloud -
…and the update chunk index list in file. This approach is already implemented in ZboxFS ( https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox ) to do content-based deduplication.
comment by burmecia · 2019-06-06 · in How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file? (2010) -
…collection IMHO. Overall, the cost is worthwhile and that is what I am currently doing in ZboxFS: https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox .
comment by burmecia · 2019-05-30 · in A way to do atomic writes -
There is an userspace implementations of filesystems ZboxFS: https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox .
comment by burmecia · 2019-05-05 · in Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python -
Nice work!. I also made a similar file system Zbox: https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox . The difference is Zbox is a in-app file system focused on privacy, so FUSE is not supported intentionally. Although it already supports key-value store…
comment by burmecia · 2018-09-10 · in Show HN: Zero – Local file system transparently swapping to the cloud -
…"zero-knowledge" play a role here? Does this provide steganography? Or, what is meant? As I said in https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox/issues/4 , this term was originally for marketing purpose. It means no data or metadata can be leaked to…
comment by burmecia · 2017-12-07 · in Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust -
…know that the author is sensitive to this issue and will likely correct it soon [1]. [1] https://github.com/zboxfs/zbox/issues/4
comment by Confiks · 2017-12-06 · in Zbox – Zero-knowledge, privacy-focused embeddable file system written in Rust