Hmm, I found something that could be interesting... Apparently QEMU images support encryption when the image is in qcow format. From the man page it seems it's 128 bit AES encryption based on password. So, install some very basic system on it, and have it export some folder with nfs or samba... Apparently QEMU works on most operating systems, and most of them can cooperate with samba and/or nfs rather easily. So, that's one option... Thoughts, opinions?
-- viq