How To Encrypt Directories/Partitions With eCryptfs On Debian Squeeze

How To Encrypt Directories/Partitions With eCryptfs On Debian Squeeze

eCryptfs
is a POSIX-compliant enterprise-class stacked cryptographic filesystem
for Linux. You can use it to encrypt partitions and also directories
that don’t use a partition of their own, no matter the underlying
filesystem, partition type, etc. This tutorial shows how to use eCryptfs
to encrypt a directory on Debian Squeeze.