> what's on the leading edge regarding encrypted filesystems on linux > these days? everything suggests ecryptfs, but i just want to know > what the other viable (and relatively modern) alternatives are. > thanks. I like truecrypt for its fanatical features, but it is a pain in the patoot to keep the driver up to date because it won't build with just the normal kernel-devel package installed, you have to dig up the full kernel source to get a header it needs. For details see: http://www.truecrypt.org/