I had installed Cryptkeeper in Ubuntu 16.04 lts.
I have upgraded Ubuntu 16.04 to 18.04.

After I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 , I completely lost my file which were encrypted through Cryptkeeper in Ubuntu 16.04. There are only folders where I kept my files.

Now when I try to install Cryptkeeper in Ubuntu 18.04 through terminal it says

E: Package 'cryptkeeper' has no installation candidate

Does anyone know how to bring back my files without degrading Ubuntu to 16.04 LTS?
Or, does anyone know of another file encryption program, as easy to install and use as Cryptkeeper, that will work reliably on Ubuntu 18.04 ?

I tried to set up an encrypted folder on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial with Gnome desktop. I know that encfs is not considered especially safe anymore, I decided to use it for my purpose anyway. Encrypting a folder with

encfs /home/xy/.hidden /home/xy/unhidden

worked fine. To add a little more usability to that, I installed cryptkeeper and started it. When I now try to import the newly created encfs-folder, I can see it in the file selection dialog, after enabling hidden files, but I can't seem to figure out how to actually select it for import. There's no "OK" or "Select" button when I highlight it. There's no difference if the folder is mounted or not. Is that a known bug of this combination or am I too dumb to select a folder?

Edit: Screenshot of dialog included.

In english: "Ordner anlegen" means "Create folder", "Abbrechen" is "Cancel" and "Vor" seems to be "Prev." in this context.

I accidentally moved an encfs-encrypted directory. I moved it back once I realized my mistake, but now whenever I try to decrypt it normally, with the same command that worked before:

encfs ~/.stuff-encrypted ~/.stuff

It now gives me the prompts as if I were setting it up.

I remember all the settings I chose (AES-256, etc.) and the password. So how do I decrypt the folder?

I use EncFS with Cryptkeeper to manage my encrypted folders (containing personal data files, bank, scans ...).

I would like to encrypt a folder on my NAS Synology but even when I have my NAS folder mounted on Ubuntu I cannot create an encrypted folder with cryptkeeper because the NAS isn't visible: I only have the local folders.

If someone have the solution, I would like to avoid the commande line, but maybe I can create a specific launcher for the folder? I would prefer Cryptkeeper.

Thx in advance. D.

I've setup an encrypted homedir according to this EncryptedHomeDirectoryHowto.

To gain ssh access I've added auth required pam_encfs.so to /etc/pam.d/sshd

$ cat /etc/pam.d/sshd | egrep -v ^#
auth       required     pam_env.so # [1]
auth       required     pam_env.so envfile=/etc/default/locale
auth       required     pam_encfs.so
@include   common-auth
account    required     pam_nologin.so
@include   common-account
@include   common-session
session    optional     pam_motd.so # [1]
session    optional     pam_mail.so standard noenv # [1]
session    required     pam_limits.so

It does work for a short time after login but after 5-10min the homedir will be unmounted. If I'm logged in locally everything is working fine. Even ssh from an other machine.

It seems like unmount is done everytime cron is starting:

/var/log/auth

Feb 22 19:01:01 xxxxx sshd[12746]: Accepted password for USER from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port 39769 ssh2
Feb 22 19:01:01 xxxxx sshd[12746]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session opened for user USER by (uid=0)
Feb 22 19:05:01 xxxxx CRON[13248]: pam_unix(cron:session): session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 22 19:05:01 xxxxx CRON[13248]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root