Thursday, July 9, 2015

filesystems - Cross platform Hard Disk encryption?


I would like to encrypt my hard drive so that it requires a password to access it. However features like BitLocker in Windows will only work under Windows, and cannot be accessed from another OS such as Ubuntu or Mac OS X.


How can I create a cross-platform encrypted file system?


Answer



TrueCrypt is cross platform.



TrueCrypt currently supports the
following operating systems:


Windows 7
Windows 7 64-bit
Windows Vista
Windows Vista 64-bit
Windows XP
Windows XP 64-bit
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 64-bit
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2003 64-bit
Windows 2000 SP4


Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard (32-bit)
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger


Linux (32-bit and 64-bit versions, kernel 2.4, 2.6 or compatible)



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