Hard drive encryption question for dual-boot XP and Fedora

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Dec 24 20:19:49 UTC 2007


Kerry Miller wrote:
> My company is requiring us to encrypt the hard drive on all laptops. 
> We've already got some encryption software but it only works with Windows,
> not anything set up to dual boot or anything running VMware.  Do any of
> you guys know of some kind of encryption software (open source or not)
> that can handle a dual boot laptop with Windows XP on one partition and
> Fedora on the other?  He's already told me I need to get rid of my Linux
> partition but I need it for network diagnostics, I'm hoping if I can find
> an alternative he'll let me and the other network guy use a different
> encryption package.

http://www.truecrypt.org/ is cross platform, but expect the usual 
difficulties in keeping anyone else's code working with fedora kernels.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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