Peter Connolly wrote: : eCryptFS. Nice article in Linux Journal: : http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9400. Thanks to all those who responded with help. As I read the above (very interesting!) article, I checked on my FC6 laptop (running the 2.6.20-1.2952.fc6 kernel) to see if encrptyfs was there. A `locate -i encryptfs' turns up nothing, as does `yum info '*encrpytfs*'. Is this stuff absent from FC6? (Tell me it ain't so. I have no time to install F7 right now.) The article said that encryptfs was available in the kernel as of 2.6.19. Clues? Dean