encryption for lin/mac/win

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alhambra · Post by **alhambra** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:17 pm

is there an encryption tool for linux, mac and windows?
thx

Katphish · Post by **Katphish** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:28 pm

http://www.gnupg.org/

alhambra · Post by **alhambra** » Wed May 24, 2006 10:37 pm

sorry, i missed to mention that i need it for filesystem-encryption

lxg · Post by **lxg** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:21 pm

Do I understand correctly that you need a filesystem that supports encryption and is natively supported by Linux, Mac and Windows?

I'm afraid there is nothing like that. It's already hard enough to find (better: use) filesystems themselves that are supported by all of the three.

PMcCauley · Post by **PMcCauley** » Wed May 24, 2006 11:28 pm

I don't know if there's anyway to get this going on the mac but it works between linux and windows.

http://www.truecrypt.org/

Patrick

alhambra · Post by **alhambra** » Thu May 25, 2006 1:56 pm

ix0, yes you understand me correctly, i need it on an usb-memory-stick for transfering data between my workstation (linux) my laptop (macosx) and school (windows), vfat should be enought. i know truecrypt, but it doesn't suppport mac

does anybody know if there is a chance to mount apple's aes-128 encrypted images on linux?

lxg · Post by **lxg** » Thu May 25, 2006 3:34 pm

alhambra, do you know there is a PPC branch of Gentoo?

GNUtoo · Post by **GNUtoo** » Thu May 25, 2006 5:21 pm

mabe...
linux kernel run on windows and mabe Mac
for windows it's colinux
for mac i don't remember

i think colinux can use real hdd but i dont know if it can use mass storage USB devices

the problem is that you'll need export the filesystem as samba or nfs...so you could use it on windows and mac

have you tryed to compile truecrypt on your mac
MacOS is an unix OS after all

alhambra · Post by **alhambra** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:22 pm

@new_to_non_X86 afaik truecrypt has to patch the linux kernel to work
@Ix0 my mac is no ppc

GNUtoo · Post by **GNUtoo** » Thu May 25, 2006 8:19 pm

alhambra wrote:@new_to_non_X86 afaik truecrypt has to patch the linux kernel to work
@Ix0 my mac is no ppc

lol
This problem(win+lin+mac encription for removable storage) is problematic...

by the way do you know that gentoo was the first linux distribution to run on the x86 mac
it ran even before windows(as expected) bootiing on efi without the bios compatibility layer(=the result of the copntest for booting windows or bootcamp)
http://www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page

alhambra · Post by **alhambra** » Thu May 25, 2006 9:59 pm

don't worry, i know this. but i think osx is a great os

GNUtoo · Post by **GNUtoo** » Fri May 26, 2006 12:04 am

alhambra wrote:don't worry, i know this. but i think osx is a great os

The base of osX is Free software
and it integrate some great technologies(also avaliable in gnome and KDE) such as spotlight
i wonder if OpenDarwin and GNU/Darwin use them(there is a in kernel part)