Encrypt Files / Directories

Say we have a directory myStuff in our $HOME and we want
to encrypt it and use it to store sensitive information.

Run:

encfs $HOME/myStuff $HOME/myEncryptedStuff

This will prompt you to answer few questions for the encryption.

The directory

myEncryptedStuff

will be used as mount point to the encrypted directory

myStuff

To unmount the encrypted directory, run:

fusermount -u $HOME/myEncryptedStuff

To remount it, run:

encfs $HOME/myStuff $HOME/myEncryptedStuff

To change password for the encryption, have the directory unmounted and run:

encfsctl passwd $HOME/myStuff