How to Encrypt Files with gocryptfs on Linux

Do you want to encrypt important files, but not your Linux system’s entire hard drive? If so, we recommend gocryptfs. You’ll get a directory that, essentially, encrypts and decrypts everything you store.



Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:18 Installing gocryptfs
0:45 Creating and encrypted directory
1:58 Mounting the encrypted directory
3:29 Unmounting the encrypted directory
4:00 End screen



What you will learn
1. Installing gocryptfs
a. How to install gocryptfs on ubuntu
2. Creating an Encrypted Directory
a. How to Create a directory to contain the files and subdirectories you’re protecting
b. How to Use gocryptrfs to initialize that directory
c. How to Create an empty directory as a mount point, and then mount the encrypted directory onto it
d. In the mount point, how to you can see and use the decrypted files and create new ones
e. How to Unmount the encrypted folder when you’re done
f. How to create a directory called “vault” to hold the encrypted data
g. How to create the gocryptfs file system within the directory
h. How to generated and displayed your master key
i. How to change into the new directory
3. Mounting the Encrypted Directory
a. How to encrypted directory on the mount point
b. How to create a simple text file using terminal
c. How to edit and add some content in text file using terminal
d. How to switch into encrypted directory
4. Unmounting the Encrypted Directory
a. How to unmount encrypted directory using fusermount
b. How to unmounts the gocryptfs file system inside the encrypted directory from the mount point












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