"Kenneth E. Lussier" wrote:
> I'm looking for something to encrypt entire hard drives. Well, actually,
> what I need to do is to protect the data that is on laptops. If the
> laptop is stolen, I want the hard drive to be useless. So it doesn't
> have to be encryption, just some sort of safety mechanism. Unfortunatly,
> the laptops are dual-boot with Windoze and Linux. I've seen
> Windoze-based programs to encrypt drives (PGP Desktop, RSA Keon, etc.),
> but they all have the same problem: "Transparent Encryption". With this
> stuff, if single files are stolen from the machine, they are useless,
> but if someone steals the laptop, they can still see everything. Also, I
> haven't found anything for like this for Linux. Does anyone have any
> suggestions for products like this?
First off, don't tape the pass phrase to the front of the laptop ;-)
Second, realize, if you lose the pass phrase, you lose the laptop's
contents. :-(
(Of course, all of you know this, but I like to beat dead horses.)
For Windows...
There's a buyer's guide of products at
http://www.nwc.com/1117/1117buyers2.html
In summary, F-Secure's FileCrypto and PC Guardian's Encryption Plus for
Hard Drives will encrypt hard drives. I've had good luck with other
F-Secure products in the past, though not this one. Also, look at EFS
(Encrypting File System) built into Windows 2000. Plus look at jetico
(below) for cross platform solutions.
For Linux...
Start with the how-to at
http://www.kerneli.org/loopback-encrypted-filesystem.html
Also check out http://linux01.gwdg.de/~alatham/ppdd.html
For Both...
Look at http://www.jetico.com/index.htm They do mountable encrypted file
systems for both Linux and Windows.
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