hard drive encryption
 

I have developed some Servlet software I would like to launch using a hosted service where I will have control over a Linux implementation on another company's machine.

I am sure these companies are very trustworthy but I would like to believe the data (eg source code) I store on their machines remains totally private.

Is it possible (or even standard) for Linux to write data to the hard drive in encrypted form.

I have no experience with Linux to date.

It's possible to have encryted files, partitions, pretty much
anything you want. You can even have an entire filesystem encrypted into a single file. Check out mount and losetup.

Zack

You'll also need to consider some kind of encrypted VPN tunnel so your code does not upload and download unencrypted.

thanks heaps,
both replies highly valued