I've had reports from a couple users of Arch Linux that EncFS is unable to access their existing encrypted filesystems after upgrading Arch packages.

The problem is that OpenSSL 0.9.8e has a known problem with Blowfish encryption which makes it incompatible with any other versions of OpenSSL.

EncFS users will not be able to read filesystem which use Blowfish with key length > 128 bits, and if they create a new filesystem when using OpenSSL 0.9.8e, then they will not be able to access their filesystem when using the next release of OpenSSL with that bug fixed.

See: http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=15978

regards,
Valient