Building and using an encrypted container stored in a remote host (encfs+sshfs)
Those lines below are my notes to mount an remote folder through ssh, using sshfs [1] and building an encrypted container with encfs [2]. I’ll not explain in details how to install sshfs and encfs ’cause it dependes whether linux distribution or unix-like bsd flavor you’re running, furthermore, there are tons of documents on web convering these topics. IMHO, this is a great solution to easily store securely your files in any remote host (cloud) that you have access through ssh, using well known common unix tools. 1) Mount remote filesystem through ssh: sshfs user@host:/full/path/dir/ /full/path/mount_point It’s important to say […]