Re: since demise of encfs what to use for encrypting dir

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Mike Kupfer <m.kupfer@acm.org> writes:

> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I guess encfs and its companion on windows of truecrypt have been
>> declared serious security hazards... encfs is not even available .. at
>> least in jessie repos.
>> 
>> What are people using as a replacement?  Hopefully something as easy
>> to use and encfs was.
>
> I've been using ecryptfs-utils on both Debian and Ubuntu, from the
> instructions at
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedPrivateDirectory.

Thanks for the input... I saw that when googling too and gave it a
try.

And it does seem easy enough to use.

So far that is the only suggestion that actually contains an
answer... so Thanks again.

Anyone have another suggestion rather than a deeper philosophical
comment ;).

Or are the choices really that limited.

Are there arguments against ecryptfs?