Encrypting user data on per-app basis?

Bastien Nocera hadess at hadess.net
Tue Sep 3 08:25:22 UTC 2019


On Mon, 2019-09-02 at 21:47 -0500, Ryan Gonzalez wrote:
> Apps already can't access each others data by default, even with --
> filesystem=home.

Flatpak bind mounts a tmpfs mount on top of ~/.var/app and then mounts
the app's directory in ~/.var/app/<app id>/

See:
https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/blob/master/common/flatpak-context.c#L2048

This doesn't stop having per-app on-disk encryption from being a good
idea though. The main problem being how, as Alex mentioned.



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