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[OCLUG-Tech] encrypted filesystems -- LUKS versus eCryptfs?

  ashamed to admit i know very little about encrypted filesystems
so here's a fairly simple question -- from what i've read (briefly),
it *seems* that eCryptfs is an improvement over LUKS. is that
accurate? or are they equally viable technologies so that one
could reasonably choose one or the other depending on the
circumstances?

  put another way, i have to teach some basic encrypted filesystems
as part of an admin course in january, and i'm wondering if i should
cover both technologies, or simply the *better* one. at the moment,
i suspect i should cover both, just to play it safe.

rday