Encryption for NTFS in Linux

[Kevin Martin]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 15:58 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>> I have a laptop with dual boot with one NTFS partition so that both Windows 
>> and Linux can read/write to it. I use ntfs-3g to mount the partition with 
>> Fedora 8.
>> Is there any way to have encryption on that NTFS partition that works for both 
>> Windows and Fedora 8 ? My main concern is protecting the data in case the 
>> laptop gets stolen, etc.
>> I did some Google searches but haven't come up with any real lead yet.
>>     
>
> You can't have looked very hard.
> http://www.ntfs-3g.org/support.html#questions says:
>
>         "NTFS supports built-in, transparent compression and encryption
>         of files and directories on the file system level. Reading
>         transparently compressed files are supported but writing of
>         compressed and encrypted files is denied."
>
> poc
>
>   
I think maybe that was his point that ntfs-3g didn't support being able 
to write compressed and encrypted files and was asking if there was such 
a beast so he could.  Another respondent pointed to TrueCrypt.org as a 
possible solution.

Kevin