Recommendations for hard drive encryption.

[muttleymacclad]

Hi guys,

I've been looking around for encryption progs and wondered if anybody has any recommendations for both mac and / or pc. (Looked at True Crypt (open source) and Pgp - but a bit pricey.)

I'm looking to encrypt the hard drives, so if they get nicked the hard drive is not readable even if removed from the lappy. I'm after a basic, on-the-fly prog that a basic user can get by with.

thanks

mml

[OrangeJuicey]

http://www.thefreecountry.com/securi...ion.shtml#otfe

To be honest if you want to use both mac osx and windows on the same encrypted drives then you will probably want to go with True Crypt. Now I know for a fact that there are easy hardware solutions for this where they interface between your drive and the motherboard I just can't find the link. FreeOTFE also looks like a good one since this works on windows and linux.

[Over Carl]

Haven't got a clue about the mac side but most modern pc laptops I've looked at have a trusted platform module (tpm) which can be used to verify the hd is in the correct machine, your laptop oem should provide a utility to use this to allow you to set up a secure area on the hd.

[muttleymacclad]

Thanks guys.

@ orangejuicy, sorry, i meant the drives are only running one OS, just two different laptop / macbooks.

mml

[Mr.James]

windows 7 ultimate with bitlocker.

Pretty good guide here:

http://www.petri.co.il/bitlocker-in-windows-7.htm

[Zippeyrude]

i use truecrypt for work lappys running xp and have found it excellent, stable and reliable

[Ashy]

I also use TrueCrypt for encryption stuff at work.
Does the job.

[unclex]

TrueCrypt or Compusec

[DJ OD]

Safeboot is used by a major bank I cannot name on open forum...

I thought that if a HDD was password protected, like IBM thinkpads, it was useless in another machine? Don't X360s do the same thing?


DJ OD

[ant3b]

pointsec is a good one!

[muttleymacclad]

thanks again guys.

LOL. Just tried trucrypt and it dosen't work with the Beta copy of win 7 i've got.

ta

mml

[Zippeyrude]

thanks again guys.

LOL. Just tried trucrypt and it dosen't work with the Beta copy of win 7 i've got.

ta

mml

i was under the impression that thelatest truecrypt was Win7 compatible
Perhaps its the beta that is problematic?

[unclex]

I thought that if a HDD was password protected, like IBM thinkpads, has been cracked

Try http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/do...free_compusec/

[DJ OD]

I thought that if a HDD was password protected, like IBM thinkpads, has been cracked

Try http://www.ce-infosys.com/english/do...free_compusec/

Last one I tried to open ended up getting thrown across a room, so they better not be hacked!


DJ OD

[unclex]

Maybe they have not got onto Windows 7 yet?