On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 08:40 -0500, Kevin Martin wrote:
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.
Yes, that's a possible interpretation. It would have been clearer had he
mentioned that NTFS encryption was not a solution.
poc