[nzlug] Mounting encrypted FSs remotely

[Howard]

Hi

looking for suggestions about how to set up then remotely mount one or 
more encrypted file systems.

I'd like to have an encrypted file system on a server (either a physical 
partition, or loop back file) and then on a remote machine, mount this 
device.

Remote machine could be on local LAN, or over the internet using 
openSSH.  Remote machine will likely be Linux, but I don't really want 
to rule out OSX and Windows machines in the future to account for other 
users.

I don't want the local server to be capable of mounting the FS. (i.e. 
the keys etc won't be present)

The only way I can see to do it at the moment is place a loopback file 
on a local filesystem, export this file system and then mount via 
loopback on the remote machine. Sounds a bit risky to me for internet 
use - i.e. would it be prone to corruption?

Any ideas welcomed...

Cheers
H