PGP Whole Disk Encryption for Dual Boot Linux and Windows XP
Created: 27 Jan 2011 | 1 comment
I dual boot my laptop between 64 bit Ubuntu (10.10) Linux and 32 bit Windows XP. I would like to use whole disk encryption to encrypt all partitions of my laptop and still have the ability to dual boot between these two OS's. If I install PGP on my windows and Linux partitions before doing whole disk encryption will it be possible use both OS's?
Please not that I searched online but found that the information available is fairly old (dating to a time when the commercial PGP software only supported Windows).
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For this response I will refer back to the latest documentation for Linux.
https://supportimg.pgp.com/guides/pgpwdeLinux_101_...
Ubuntu 10.10 is not listed as being a supported version in the manuall. I suspect it should work, but if something goes wrong, we will not be able to support it.
For dual booting, these KB articles may be helpful:
https://pgp.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6...
https://pgp.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1...
https://pgp.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2...
Again, I suspect it would work, but should be done on a test system first and cannot be supported if something goes wrong. I also suspect that there will be improvements to this in future releases of Desktop for Linux.
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