Conceal is the Google Summer of Code project of Kévin Dunglas for Ubuntu, mentored by Jani Monoses. The goal of this project is to increase security of sensitives data stored on computers. Conceal is a compilation of tools which allow to easily encrypt, open, close and decrypt directories in a Desktop environment. It is especially useful for laptops users. It is wrote in Python, it uses EncFS as backend.

Conceal is composed of the following parts:

• A Python module
• A command line tool
• A GTK interface running standalone or in GNOME Control Center
• An extension to Nautilus, the GNOME file manager
• A KDE interface running standalone or in Kcontrol / KCMshell