FOSS cross-platform data drive encryption

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Sam Kuper wrote:
> Hm, it's not just the firmware that's in question. To use the Seagate
> FDE drives on a Mac, one has to use "Seagate Secure" software, too,
> which is proprietary:
> http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/206011en#4 I haven't
> yet been able to find any helpful information about the Hitachi
> drives, but I suspect they're similar.


Several of the 'hardware' solutions have been shown to have pretty serious flaws in their implementations as well (often easily recoverable keys and/or universal keys to enable data recovery).

This isn't exactly what you asked for, but something like encfs might work for you...

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