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Encrypt Your Data With EncFS (OpenSUSE 12.2) 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 OpenSUSE 12.2 to encrypt your data.

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By: mungewell
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EncFS is pretty cool; whilst it normally provides a plan-text 'view' of an encrypted directory, it can be used with the '--reverse' flag to provide an encrypted view of a plain text directory.

This is great for creating encrypted backups, but without the overhead of (always) having the local filesystem encrypted. You might also want to use this if you're pushing files to cloud storage.