OSXLion Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Hi, is it possible to enrypt the whole system disk running 10.5 osx86? PGP Disk Encryption can do this with any intel mac, but is it also possible when i have a osx86 machine or would that result in conflicts with the efi emulation? see: http://www.pgp.com/products/wholediskencryption/index.html Anyone ever tried this out? thanks Lion Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171753-osx86-pgp-disk-encryption/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
xor_2 Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 only way to find out... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171753-osx86-pgp-disk-encryption/#findComment-1182811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXLion Posted June 21, 2009 Author Share Posted June 21, 2009 My problem is that i do not have a osx86 installation anymore and that I only want to go back to osx86 if i could do such a full encryption. right now i run ubuntu on a fully encrypted drive. Furthermore, I guess that PGP Disk Encryption writes a custom boot process on the disk and one has to do some tricking around with cameleon. So I would not be able to figure it out myself. so that is why i ask. maybe someone already gave it a try. or heard about it. or... It should be important for everyone here. Guess most of you prefere authorities not to find the osx installation on your harddisk Edit: there is a second full disk encryption solution: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/datasecurity/pc/ edit2: someone tried, but as i thought he failed because of the booting problem... http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1182951 best lion Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171753-osx86-pgp-disk-encryption/#findComment-1182949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vampyric Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 My problem is that i do not have a osx86 installation anymore and that I only want to go back to osx86 if i could do such a full encryption. right now i run ubuntu on a fully encrypted drive. Furthermore, I guess that PGP Disk Encryption writes a custom boot process on the disk and one has to do some tricking around with cameleon. So I would not be able to figure it out myself. so that is why i ask. maybe someone already gave it a try. or heard about it. or... It should be important for everyone here. Guess most of you prefere authorities not to find the osx installation on your harddisk Edit: there is a second full disk encryption solution: http://www.checkpoint.com/products/datasecurity/pc/ edit2: someone tried, but as i thought he failed because of the booting problem... http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php...p;#entry1182951 best lion Your best bet before doing anything would be to make a backup of your install. When I setup my laptop hp dv6226us with osx in the earlyer days of 10.5 beta the 1st thinig I did was split my hardrive into 2 partitions. and use a really must have imo program called Superduper to basicly clone my primary partition and have an image setup on the 2nd partition. This way if you kill your main install you just boot from the 2nd partition and transfer it back to the primary in the same way. Hope this helps with atleast your reinstall problem. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171753-osx86-pgp-disk-encryption/#findComment-1184005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXLion Posted June 27, 2009 Author Share Posted June 27, 2009 Hi, well if I use osx86 again I will do that for sure. The thing is that I turned my back to OSX and OSX86 because of the lack of a disk enryption. That is something I realy need! But now there is a full disk encryption tool available for OSX and I would love to use it with an hackintosh. Did realy no one ever try to get it to work? wouldn't it be awsome if we could encrypt our OSX installation? Thanks Lion Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/171753-osx86-pgp-disk-encryption/#findComment-1187068 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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