Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:58 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
Hello, I have a laptop with dual boot with one NTFS partition so that both Windows and Linux can read/write to it. I use ntfs-3g to mount the partition with Fedora 8. Is there any way to have encryption on that NTFS partition that works for both Windows and Fedora 8 ? My main concern is protecting the data in case the laptop gets stolen, etc. I did some Google searches but haven't come up with any real lead yet.
You can't have looked very hard. http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#questions says:
"NTFS supports built-in, transparent compression and encryption of files and directories on the file system level. Reading transparently compressed files are supported but writing of compressed and encrypted files is denied."
poc
I think maybe that was his point that ntfs-3g didn't support being able to write compressed and encrypted files and was asking if there was such a beast so he could. Another respondent pointed to TrueCrypt.org as a possible solution.
Kevin