Ho to Encrypt specific local files? Try fuse-encfs
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Tue Nov 21 03:25:59 UTC 2006
On Monday 20 November 2006 08:00, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> "Peter Gordon" <peter at thecodergeek.com> writes:
Have you considered using encrypted file system such as fuse-encfs. Its
quite easy - If you wish to try it you can do the following:
To use encfs:
[as root]
# yum install fuse-encfs
[as user create a place to hold the encrypted files
and a 'mount' point to see the decrypted visible versions of same]
% mkdir -p ~/Private/.encrypted ~/Private/visible
[Now set up a password to encrypt/decrypt]
Remember it. At the prompt type 'p' for preconfigured mode, then it
will ask for a password]
% encfs ~/Private/.encrypted ~/Private/visible
Use ~/Private/visible - whatever goes in there will
look normal, but will actually be stored encrypted
in ~/Private/.encrypted
No just do whatever you want in ~/Private/visible - it will be encrypted -
you can make subdirs and whatever you normally do ..
To ensure this is shutoff (unmounted) when you logogg in kde
put this script in ~/.kde/shutdown
#!/bin/bash
#
#
fusermount -u ~/Private/visible
You can confirm all is encrypted by unmounting and seeing visible is now
empty - all you see is the encrypted data in ~/Private/.encrypted
Enjoy
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