encryption of external hdd

[Owen Townend]

On Fri, 2007-11-16 at 22:31 +1100, Sebastian Spiess wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I want to set my external HDD up with a encrypted partition.
> If possible I would like to access it from Ubuntu and Windows (work :-( ).
> I would prefer a journaling FS but am not sure if this leads to complications.
> By now I use truecrypt with a container at work but have no exp with truecrypt and linux.
> 
> Are there comparisons of cross platform solutions?
> any thoughts?
> 
> Cheers sebastian
> 

Hey,
  If you're happy with Truecrypt so far it works just fine with linux.

  If you're after a comparison, Wikipedia's one is easy to read:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_disk_encryption_software

cheers,
Owen.