How can a specific directory on a filesystem be encrypted?

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Issue

  • We want to encrypt any writes into a specific directory and decrypt the data on read. What can be used for this? Cryptsetup? LUKS? eCryptfs?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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