How To: use encrypted directories with ENCFS and FUSE
There is many options out there to encrypt datas on a hard drive. You could either encrypt a whole partition using kernel filesystem or simply encrypt specifics directories on your hard disk.
encfs along with fuse can accomplish this.
This how-to will show how you can easily encrypt a directory on your filesystem.
the tools we are going to use here are:
fuse
encfs
encfs allow encrypting virtual filesystem, virtual because you are not going to encrypt a whole partition but simply use a native filesystem such as ext3, reiserfs… A good point is that you do not have to create a new filesystem and define a specific size, but will be able to use as much room left in the existing filesystem you are going to encrypt the directory on.
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