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Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10) EncFS provides an encrypted filesystem in user-space. It runs without any special permissions and uses the FUSE library and Linux kernel module to provide the filesystem interface. It is a pass-through filesystem, not an encrypted block device, which means it is created on top of an existing filesystem. This tutorial shows how you can use EncFS on Debian Squeeze/Ubuntu 11.10 to encrypt your data.

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Thank you Falko.

I was able to get this to work on Fedora 16. I used the following command to install (step 2):

sudo yum install encfs

I also use the following command to mount the decrypted directory:

encfs ~/encrypted ~/decrypted --idle=30

The "--idle=" unmounts the directory after 30 minutes. EncFS will tries to unmount the decrypted directory after the time if no files are in use.

Jens

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For a simple GUI wrapper to click mount and unmount, see https://github.com/bulletmark/encfsui.