state of the art WRT encrypted filesystems?

[RavenOak]

On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 07:58 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> what's on the leading edge regarding encrypted filesystems on linux
> these days?  everything suggests ecryptfs, but i just want to know
> what the other viable (and relatively modern) alternatives are.
> thanks.
> 
> rday
> 
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> Robert P. J. Day
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I use the cryptsetup-luks package.  I have a USB drive partitioned in
two slices, first one formatted VFAT the other setup using LUKS and
formatted ext2.  I plug in my thumb drive, it auto-detects both
partitions, mounts the VFAT and asks for a password for the other then
mounts it.  It can use any crypto scheme compiled into the kernel, I use
aes-cbc-essiv:sha256.

--Tim