How can a specific directory on a filesystem be encrypted?
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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