[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained: add news item

[gentoo-dev] [PATCH] 2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained: add news item

[Viorel Munteanu]

Add a news item about data encrypted with sys-fs/encfs being unsafe.

I will also mask the package for removal when the news item gets
published, but with a longer time period (at least 3 months).

Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/960358
Signed-off-by: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org>
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 .../2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained.en.txt   | 25 +++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained/2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained.en.txt

diff --git a/2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained/2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained.en.txt b/2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained/2025-09-12-encfs-is-unmaintained.en.txt
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+Title: encfs is unmaintained
+Author: Viorel Munteanu <ceamac@gentoo.org>
+Posted: 2025-08-31
+Revision: 2
+News-Item-Format: 2.0
+Display-If-Installed: sys-fs/encfs
+
+sys-fs/encfs is effectively unmaintained upstream.  Old archives are already
+hard to read without it crashing [1], and no new bugfixes are expected.
+Chances are data will become unreadable sooner than later.
+
+Upstream recommends migrating to newer alternatives, like
+app-crypt/gocryptfs [2].
+
+Since migrating large quantities of data can take time, please consider
+migrating everything while it's still possible.
+
+Note: app-crypt/gocryptfs is better than encfs when used with local
+storage, but it may be extremly slow over sshfs or CIFS [3].  A faster
+alternative in such a case would be gocryptfs over rclone mount, or
+using rclone crypt directly.
+
+[1] https://github.com/vgough/encfs/issues/651
+[2] https://github.com/vgough/encfs/?tab=readme-ov-file#status
+[3] https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs/issues/764
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