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Posted by karl levinson, mvp on November 26, 2005, 7:47 am
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I'm not sure if such a thing exists. The main disk encryption solution I
could find for Mac is PGP, and it only supports Mac and Windows, and you
have to install its software first.
http://www.pgp.com/products/desktop/professional/pgpwholedisk.html
http://www.infoanarchy.org/wiki/index.php/Hard_Disk_Encryption#Software
http://www.thex.com/security/category/os/mac/
WinMagic reportedly inserts its encryption code into the BIOS pre-boot, but
it only comes in flavors for Windows, must be installed first, and it might
require a PKI.
These solutions appear to be special portable external firewire hard drives
with OS-independent encryption:
http://www.firewiremax.com/fire-wire-1394-ilink/securedisk.html
I think you'll need to either buy special hardware-encrypted drives or
settle for encryption software that you can install onto multiple platforms.
PGP and GPG may be your best bet there for supporting the most OSes,
although distributing private keys securely and conveniently becomes a
challenge. It might also be one of the only free solutions to support this
many OSes.
This article says pretty much the same thing, that there is no one solution
and you'll have to evaluate several and choose the one that meets most of
your specific requirements. It also describes a bunch of products you might
consider. Skip down to the section titled "Disk encryption across the
enterprise."
http://www.fcw.com/article87865-01-23-05-Print
> Hi *,
>
> I have firewire and USB devices with partitions/logical drives, whole
> directories and/or files I would like to encrypt. The thing is that I
> need to be able to just plug in the thing on any x86 machine running a
> commercial OS that would just take it (and AFAIK the only filesystem
> that even a MAC would seamlessly 'mount' is vfat/FAT32)
>
> is there anyway to do that?
>
> I have read quite a bit about it and I still don't find exactly what I
> need.
>
> Also, why exactly does encryption belong in the kernel? I think once
> you make it a kernel-depending functionality 'portability' to other OS
> goes out the window
>
> Are there libraries out there (of course, preferably OSS ones) which
> you could compile for different OS and have access to pluggable
> devices?
>
> I crossposted this message, becuase to me, these portability and security
> questions reach out into different subject areas
>
> thanx
> otf
>
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