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Encrypted Volumes for Linux and Windows?
share_it asks: "On my Win PC I used a lot of encryption: I had encrypted small files for personal stuff, encrypted virtual disks for programs, music, video, etc. I used PGPdisk and mounted 3 big virtual disks (for a total of 170 gigs) on startup with just one single passphrase and those 'disks' were even quite fast. I have now switched to GNU-Linux for most of my interests, but sometimes I have to use Windows and I want my data to be encrypted and accessible from both OSes The only software that I found which can mount the same encrypted disk on both platforms is BestCript, but from Linux I can't store file with long names. Is there a better way to share encrypted data between when I dual-boot?"
I know this is highly offtopic, but I just had to say it.
I just saw a freakin' FLASH banner ad on Slashdot. A FLASH banner for Christ's sake. Where are we going next?
another nonsensical ad-hominem retort by an intellectually malnourished individual who seeks only to spread vitriol and not bring any technical truth to the table.
Those who disagree with Mister Linux Script Kiddie should be cast into the outer darkness, should be shunned, should starve? Sin is good for the soul? We can change the truth if we don't like it the way it is? These are all claims made recently by Mister Linux Script Kiddie. One of my objectives is to prescribe a course of action.
The worst kinds of atrabilious bottom-feeders there are serve as the priests in his cult of vindictive McCarthyism. These "priests" spend their days basking in Mister Linux Script Kiddie's reflected glory, pausing only when Mister Linux Script Kiddie instructs them to make us less united, less moral, less sensitive, less engaged, and more perversely puerile. What could be more officious? The complete answer to that question is a long, sad story. I've answered parts of that question in several of my previous letters, and I'll answer other parts in future ones. For now, I'll just say that it's sincerely a tragedy that his goal in life is apparently to rot our minds with the hallucinatory drug of totalitarianism. Here, I use the word "tragedy" as the philosopher Whitehead used it. Whitehead stated that "the essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things," which I interpret as saying that Mister Linux Script Kiddie's comrades often reverse the normal process of interpretation. That is, they value the unsaid over the said, the obscure over the clear. Even if one isn't completely conversant with current events, the evidence overwhelmingly indicates that even when the facts don't fit, Mister Linux Script Kiddie sometimes tries to use them anyway. He still maintains, for instance, that he has a duty to conceal the facts and lie to the rest of us, under oath if necessary, perjuring himself to help disseminate the True Faith of cronyism. I hope it will not disappoint you to learn that I have begged his vicegerents to step forth and tell Mister Linux Script Kiddie what we all think of him -- and boy, do I have some choice words I'd like to use. To date, not a single soul has agreed to help in this fashion. Are they worried about how Mister Linux Script Kiddie might retaliate? Well, while you're deliberating over that, let me ask you another question: How can someone who claims to be so educated and so open-minded dare to denigrate and discard all of Western culture? Now, not to bombard you with too many questions, but if you're the type who dares to think for yourself, then you've probably already determined that all of the anxious sighing, longing, and hoping of Mister Linux Script Kiddie's heart is directed to a time when juvenile vulgarians can incite pogroms, purges, and other mayhem. I'll probably devote a separate letter to that topic alone, but for now, I'll simply summarize by stating that as a concerned citizen, I will forge ahead in my brave quest to speak out against behavior and speech that is intended to contaminate or cut off our cities' water supply. Let's remember that. Mister Linux Script Kiddie has announced his intentions to take credit for others' accomplishments. While doing so may earn Mister Linux Script Kiddie a gold star from the mush-for-brains propagandism crowd, when I'm through with him, he'll think twice before attempting to force me to stampede into the abattoir.