[$] Managing encrypted filesystems with dirlock

As with a mobile phone, a portable gaming device like the Steam Deck can contain
lots of personal information that the owner would like to keep
secret—especially given that such devices can do far more than gaming.
Alberto Garcia worked with his colleagues at Igalia and people at
Valve, the company behind the Steam gaming platform, to come
up with a new tool to manage encrypted filesystems for SteamOS, which is a Linux
distribution optimized for gaming. Garcia gave a talk about that tool, dirlock, at Open
Source Summit Europe, which was held in Amsterdam in late August.
In the talk, he looked at the design process for
the encrypted-files feature, the alternatives considered, and why they made
the choices
they did.