I Encryption of Windows Partition with LUKS

[Jay See II]

All,

I found out something tonight that kinda ticked me off...

The thing I absolutely love about open source stuff is that encryption of drives and files are great!

HOWEVER...

Whilst running F16 tonight, I successfully mounted my other W7 partition (same disk) with great ease..... I thought that part of the disk (Another OS mind you) was password protected?!?!?!?!?!?!?

How can I be *sure* that the files on that partition are protected? Word on the street is Bitlocker has had its' limitations and certain programs have devised a way to crack it..... Is there a way to encrypt the partition with LUKS and allow the OS to function properly as well? Please enlighten.....

[nonamedotc]

As far as I know, you cannot encrypted the boot partition of any OS. Even with bitlocker, you cannot encrypt the C: drive because windows is installed there. So, I would imagine such a setup might not be possible ...

If I am wrong, someone please correct me! Cheers.

[Jay See II]

Well, with this mentality/convention, this would mean that you could take ANY windows distro and mount it into F16 then, right?(Obviously passwords to access the OS do not account for much?)



Kinda confused here....

[nonamedotc]

What you say is true. But, isn't that the case with all distributions on unencrypted partitions when accessed with a live CD? This is my understanding of course. I could be wrong however.

I know about the windows bit based on my experience when I tried to encrypt windows partition using bitlocker ...

[kension]

DiskCryptor is a better encryption program than bitlocker by far. It's similar to trucrypt but is actually faster and works with all windows os's. Essentially installing it in windows it can encrypt your 7 partition and require a passphrase in order to boot into 7. Then your unencrypted linux would not be able to mount it at all. Diskcryptor can also create a bootable live cd before you encrypt. Just in case.
There is also TruPax 5 which creates trucrypt type volumes. It has linux portable versions as well as windows ones and creates a single file from whatever you want to encrypt with no slack, be it files or folders and does not require truecrypt to be installed. With trucrypt, you have to create a volume first and then decide what you want to put in it. Never did like trucrypt.
http://diskcryptor.net/wiki/Main_Page/en
http://www.coderslagoon.com/ (trupax5)

[nonamedotc]

Ha! Thanks for the information ... Did not know this at all.