Encrypting NTFS Hard Drive on MAC possible?

[psik]

Hi,

I have an external NTFS drive and I keep it that way instead of HFS+ because I connect it to various other non-mac devices. I was wondering however, if there is anyway I can encrypt the drive and still use it on the mac and windows devices? Is there a mac app that offers this possibility (TrueCrypt is dead).

I would appreciate any tips or insight.

 

[hallux]

You would need a cross-platform app that can do the encryption and make the container available on both platforms.

 

[psik]

You would need a cross-platform app that can do the encryption and make the container available on both platforms.

Any recommendations (at least for between windows and MAC)? I'll start on a google search for this...

 

[hallux]

TrueCrypt isn't entirely dead, it can still be used. How secure it is, I'll let you decide if it'll work for you. It is cross-platform and a container created on one OS should work on the other, though you'll want to create the container on Windows as OS X can't natively write NTFS. I don't have any other suggestions, sorry.

 

[prisstratton]

For further information regarding TrueCrypt, please read this page:

https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm

 

[psik]

Thank you so much. Time to do some research on TrueCrypt!

 

[Paper Airplane]

You can check out VeraCrypt (a fork of TrueCrypt). This is still being maintained last I checked.

 

[psik]

Thanks a million, oh yeah they are very alive based on see from their website.