Hard drive encryption question for dual-boot XP and Fedora

[Jonathan Underwood]

On 24/12/2007, Kerry Miller <kmiller01 at ticnet.com> 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.

Can't you use the already identified software for the windows
partititions, and then some of the standard linux exncryption options
for the linux partitions? See eg. Luks dm-crypt etc. Also, note the
other thread currently running on this list about full disk encryption
and fedora.