[$] Managing encrypted filesystems with dirlock

As with a mobile phone, a portable gaming device like the Steam Deck can containlots of personal information that the owner would like to keepsecret-especially given that such devices can do far more than gaming.Alberto Garcia worked with his colleagues at Igalia and people atValve, the company behind the Steam gaming platform, to comeup with a new tool to manage encrypted filesystems for SteamOS, which is a Linuxdistribution optimized for gaming. Garcia gave a talk about that tool, dirlock, at OpenSource Summit Europe, which was held in Amsterdam in late August.In the talk, he looked at the design process forthe encrypted-files feature, the alternatives considered, and why they madethe choices they did.