6/29/2023 0 Comments Truecrypt alternative ubuntu![]() ecryptfs will hide any files that we store in the private folder when it is not mounted. We should store our sensitive data into the ‘private’ directory to make sure that attackers will not be able to get our data easily. Note: this will setup a hidden private directory: ~/.Private We can easily install eCryptfs by executing the following command in the consoleĮCryptfs create a ‘private’ directory in your local drive where eCryptfs encrypts any files that we store in it. The great thing about eCryptfs compare to other encryption file system, such as TrueCrypt, is that we do not need to pre-allocate a certain amount of disk space that we want to encrypt. Encrypting a FolderĮCryptfs is a cryptographic file system based on PGP created by Philip Zimmerman on 1991. That’s it ! Follow the rest of the installation steps and the wizard will install Ubuntu on top of an encrypted partition. ![]() The encryption wizard will encrypt your ‘home’ folder, just in case if we place our ‘home’ folder outside your Ubuntu installation partition. ![]() The installation wizard will ask you to specify a passphrase that you will use to decrypt your hard drive when you login to Ubuntu.
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