Encrypted Volumes for Linux and Windows?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday June 29, 2004 @01:20PM from the privacy-in-dual-booting dept.

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?"

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Re:Do they have to be encrypted? by baywulf · 2004-06-29 14:21 · Score: 0, Troll

"The reason why could suggest a solution."

He is just John Asscroft asking for how to encrypt the top secret database of foreign lobbyists. Doesn't want to risk it on that nearly failing hard drive so he is planning to back it up.