Encrypted filesystem image

[(``-_-´´) -- Fernando]

I use encfs.
its quite easy and looks like safe.

just install it from the repositories and have a look at the man.
I have 3 different folders with diferent encriptions values.


On 7/13/07, Bart Silverstrim <bsilver at chrononomicon.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have an external USB hard disk on which I'd like to create an
> encrypted file that can be mounted so that if I want to back everything
> up, I can just copy the file to another system or drive.
>
> 1) Is there an easy tutorial/howto to do this?  I've googled for it and
> it looks like theres a few ways to do it now, but I don't know what is
> considered out of date or what other people have experienced with
> different methods to make this painless.  I'd like to do it in a way
> that either the whole drive partition is formatted as an encrypted
> system or there is a file that is mounted in loopback to appear as a
> separate filesystem and acts as a sparse file, growing on the drive as
> data is added until the "maximum file size" I specify is reached.
>
> 2) I've looked at truecrypt, but either I'm doing something wrong or
> Ubuntu isn't entirely truecrypt friendly with how it mounts the
> truecrypt files and/or permissions with root and the admin user when
> mounting the image so I have problems with copying files to the image
> file because it gets mounted as root and I'm trying to use it as a user.
>
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