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Cross-platform encryption solution


From: "JTH" <jth () visi com>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:40:35 -0500

All,
 
I've been using PGPDisk for the past few weeks to keep client data secure
on my laptop. Recently I've also converted my laptop to dual-boot between
Windows and Linux, to make it easier to get my work done when testing
clients and reduce the amount of file juggling I have to do between
different PCs. My issue arises though, in that I can't mount a PGPDisk
file in Linux. So my question: Is anyone aware of an encryption solution
that will work in both Windows and Linux environments?

For those that are unaware, PGPDisk provides a sort of crypto-loop
directory that I can mount and store files in, then unmount, without
encyrpting/decrypting each file manually. I can then move this encyrpted
PGPDisk from machine to machine and mount it again using my PGP keys.

Is there anything? Or am I stuck having to create unencrypted copies of
works-in-progress to move between Windows and Linux?

jth


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