Encryption for NTFS in Linux

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

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