Encrypt Filesystems with EncFS and Loop-AES

Linux.com (Slashdot sister site) has a quick look a file encryption using EncFS and Loop-AES as examples before briefly examining other options. From the article: "you can find a number of options for filesystem encryption in Linux exist, depending on your needs. The most important thing when choosing which one to use is to be clear about your needs. Will the size of the files you need to encrypt grow or stay static? Do you need to encrypt certain files or entire partitions? What level of security do you need? Answers to these questions will help determine the most appropriate program to use."

For good, easy, root encryption

[GenKreton]

I use LUKS (Linux Unified Key Setup) on several of my machines. It is an extension onto cryptsetup and uses dm-cryp instead of loopaes. It is fairly easy to setup and allows for multiple users with different phrases if needed as well as tokens. It has treated me much better than loop aes had in the past.

http://luks.endorphin.org/ [endorphin.org]

Encfs

[toad3k]

Encfs is great, if you are x86. I made the mistake of unmasking it on gentoo amd64 and it flipped out and I ended up sorting through 300+ files in my l+f directory from my corrupted partition. But for x86 it is very convenient, I highly recommend.