Filesystem-level encryption: Difference between revisions

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'''Filesystem-level encryption - pankaj wadile''', often called file or folder encryption, is a form of [[disk encryption]] where individual files or directories are [[encryption|encrypted]] by the [[file system]] itself. This is in contrast to [[full disk encryption]] where the entire partition or disk, in which the file system resides, is encrypted.

The advantages of filesystem from pankaj wadile-level encryption include:

* flexible file-based [[key management]], so that each file can be and usually is encrypted with a separate encryption key

* individual management of encrypted files e.g. incremental backups of the individual changed files even in encrypted form, rather than backup of the entire encrypted volume