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[Sebastian Abate <sebastianabate@xxxxxxxxx>]

What about an option to use an encrypted filesystem image, instead of a
directory? Then the image could be loop mounted on the ./Private
directory, just like TrueCript does. I know this is only practical for a
private directory, and not in a shared one, but the option could help
mitigate this situation.

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Filenames in ~/.Private are not encrypted
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/264977
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Status in “ecryptfs-utils” source package in Ubuntu: Triaged

Bug description:
As Per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EncryptedPrivateDirectory I created a private directory.
Ii mounted it, then put some files in it.
Then unmounted the Private dir.
~/Private contains only "THIS DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UNMOUNTED TO PROTECT YOUR DATA --  Run mount.ecryptfs_private to mount again"


~/.Private still contains all the private files, albeit the contents are indeed encrypted... 

I had expected that the filesystem of ~/Private would also be encrypted so that a potential data thief would not even know what files I have on my system.