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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
