“EncFS is an easy-to-use, command-line tool for storing
information in encrypted form. It’s not really a filesystem, but it
pretends to be one at the CLI. If you’ve been searching for a means
of encrypting and decrypting your sensitive data easily, here it
is.“EncFS is included with the distribution I’m using on the
desktop, Ubuntu Dapper, so all I needed to do to install it was a
few clicks in Synaptic. Look for the encfs package, and select if
for installation. It should pull down all of the dependencies for
the system…”