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+CryptoFS is a encrypted filesystem for Filesystem in Userspace (FUSE)
+and the Linux Userland FileSystem (LUFS).
+
+CryptoFS will use a normal directory to store files encrypted. The
+mountpoint will contain the decrypted files. Every file stored in
+this mountpoint will be written encrypted (data and filename) to the
+directory that was mounted. If you unmount the directory the encrypted
+data can only be access by mounting the directory with the correct key
+again. Like other FUSE/LUFS filesystems it does not need root access
+or any complicated setup like creating a filesystem on a encrypted disk
+using the loop device.
+
+This requires fuse (also available at SlackBuilds.org), although it can
+alternatively use LUFS if you have that installed from elsewhere.