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What is the easiest way to encrypt a dir? (on Ubuntu)

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What is the easiest way to encrypt a directory on a Ubuntu based system? Let's say I have a laptop that is running Ubuntu 10.04, and on that I have some documents that should be kept safe (if I lose the laptop). Let's say all to documents is in a dir called ~/work/, and nothing secret is outside th…

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There are three methods: set up an encrypted volume on a partition ( , configured with ), set up a file which is an encrypted volume (truecrypt), set up a directory where each file is encrypted separately ( or ). Setting up an encrypted volume gives…

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