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HOWTO: EncFS Encrypted Filesystem in Ubuntu and Fedora GNU/Linux

(Go straight to the HOWTOs. Do not pass GO.)

2 June 2007: Updated with comments for 7.04 / Feisty Fawn.

I mentioned recently that I planned to keep using TrueCrypt in GNU/Linux since I had used it profitably in Windows, and that I also intended to keep using the container approach where you create a single file of a certain size and then mount it to get your virtual file system.

I’m reevaluating my plan. I still like TrueCrypt and will likely keep using it, maybe by alternating DVD backups between it and my new intended: the EncFS Encrypted Filesystem. (And of course GPG is always good for many crypto jobs, and will also be part of my security framework.)

The drawback with my …