Aug
10
eCryptfs is a kernel-native crypographic filesystem. It’s also a stacked filesystem, eCryptfs must work on top of another filesystem such as Ext3. This means that you don’t need to allocate space for eCryptfs, it will grow and shrink as you add files to it.
eCryptfs will be used in Ubuntu 8.10 to provide an encrypted private directory for every user. I set up my own private directory in Ubuntu 8.04. It’s not a user friendly solution like it will be in the next version of Ubuntu, but it’s not too difficult to simplify mounting and unmounting with some launchers.
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