What "type" of encryption is the default ubuntu home directory one?

[venom104]

I'm curious to know more about the default ubuntu home folder encryption. I encrypted my drive with the live cd when I was installing ubuntu, and it didn't tell me anything about the encryption scheme! I want to know how many...uh...bits? the encryption has? and the encryption algorithm (the only one I know of is RSA).

I'm a bit of a newb at encryption so bear with me.

[lechien73]

The encrypted home folder uses encfs and (ugh...I hate myself for doing this) there's a reasonably good write-up of the system here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS