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19Mar/070

Creating an encrypted volume

I needed to meet my company's required security policy for taking source code offsite: 256bit AES encryption.

Since the source code I had on my laptop was within a Virtual Machine, I thought it would be a good solution to make an encrypted filesystem big enough for the VM, and only mount it when I wanted to work.

Here's my requirements:
- Encrypted FS that is (un)mountable whenever need be
- Passphrase to mount the filesystem
- 30GB of storage within the filesystem, to accomodate the 30GB VM disk.