Truly a nerd feature right now, I’m kind of enthused to see this kind of encryption built-in. Of course, I still like TrueCrypt as the cross-platform solution. But an encrypted home directory can sure make for easier breathing when it comes to security. Anyone trying this?

• Encrypted $HOME Now Offerred at Installation | Ubuntu Geek

  • Ubuntu Karmic Alpha5 image now offers home directory encryption as an option to all installing users!.We introduced Encrypted Private Directories in the Ubuntu 8.10 release, using eCryptfs (an enterprise cryptographic filesystem in the Linux kernel) on $HOME/Private. This release helped “prove” eCryptfs, and helped us identify and fix a number of issues. This new approach to encrypted private data in Ubuntu provided a safe folder where users could store confidential information, automatically mounted at login, and unmounted at logout.

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