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num
January 2nd, 2009, 07:01 PM
Is there an alternative to Truecrypt (http://www.truecrypt.org/)? A program that can entire an entire hard drive?
num
January 3rd, 2009, 02:15 AM
anyone? :(
fargle
January 4th, 2009, 02:03 AM
Yes, you can use the alternate install ISO to use the built-in dm_crypt to encrypt the whole drive in a LVM host and require a password on bootup to unlock it.

The nice thing about Truecrypt is that it's cross-platform so you can, for example, encrypt external drives with Truecrypt and FAT32 and read them on both Windows and Linux. But it's not for system drives.