Encrypted Directory With encfs
I would like to keep my secrets in encrypted directory. It seems that there already exists a nice solution to this problem and it is called encfs.
For reference, I found online manual with examples after visiting baeldung linux article first.
So, let’s do it.
Create a pair of directories
Here I’m creating two directories:
- ~/.crypt is the source directory - here encrypted data are stored
- ~/crypt directory which is the mountpoint - here I would see decrypted files to work with
[karma@tpd] mkdir ~/crypt ~/.cryptCreate encfs
Now, in order to start working with encsfs I issue following command: encfs source mountpoint:









