Encrypted filesystems

There is currently a thread on the fedora-maintainers mailing list about using encrypted filesystems. This thread has been ongoing for a few days, and I found it odd that nobody pointed out a really nice and easy to use fuse filesystem called EncFS

Some things it can do is encrypt a directory (and the things that live below it), along with letting me backup the encrypted data without having to jump through hoops.

I highly suggest taking a look. It's available in Fedora Extras as the fuse-encfs package.