This may be asking for a lot, but here goes anyway:

I have a laptop running Linux (Slack 12.1 in case it matters) and unfortunately Vista as well. Because it's a laptop, which may get lost and/or stolen, I wish to encrypt as much as I can. Encrypting the Linux partitions was a piece of cake using LUKS. But the Vista partition and the NTFS partition I use for sharing data between the two OS is still plaintext.

Does anyone have experience with encrypting NTFS partitions, in such a way that they can still be accessed by Linux?

Thanks in advance,

Alphons

You could use True Crypt v5.1a. It has a version for Windows and a version for Linux. Any encrypted partition can be decrypted under both Windows and Linux. Therefore you can encrypt the Vista system partition while you are running Vista and still decrypt and mount it under Linux.

www.truecrypt.org

I've used True Crypt under both Windows and Linux. I haven't yet encrypted a Windows system partition but the documentation says that it is possible. I don't know if it will cooperate with GRUB.

Sounds promising, I'll look into it.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Fonz