On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 13:42, Dan Armbrust <daniel.armbrust.list at gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone know what software I could use to create expandable encrypted > file containers? > > TrueCrypt is wonderful... but you can't resize the encrypted files it creates. > > Aka - I want to be able to mount a file as an encrypted file system, > copy arbitrary files into that file system, unmount it, and copy the > file containing the encrypted file system to another server where > there is no security. > > But I don't want to have to know the file size ahead of time - which > TrueCrypt requires. why not just tar up the files and then encrypt the tarball? maybe even use the --use-compress-program= option and a special wrapper to gnupg.