The title may be a little miss leading so I'll try explain as best as possible. What I am looking for is a way to encrypt a folder. Then have access to that folder shared amongst multiple users. Very similar to what you can do with gpg, where giving a key will allow you access to the contents. The folder will must likely be a network share of some type, this is mainly for automation.
What have a looked at? crypts looked very promising but I failed to understand if you can use a key based method to access, and can this be from multiple different keys? It does seem to support ssl but not sure again on how to get this working. Crypts documentation seems to just point back to ubuntu man pages, which didn't help me understand how they work together.
Again I may have gone the complete wrong direction to. But any ideas would be great.
The ultimate goal will be for our chef nodes to connect to the chef server, then retrieve sensitive files. This is not a database concept as that doesn't seem to support files. Plus they all use the same key. Looked at chef-vault and still looking into if this is the option or not.
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