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Best way to encrypt a partition? (infosec.pub)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ok, so I'm wondering... what is the best way to encrypt a partition?

I know that Bitlocker exists, but I am unsure if that is the most secure encryption method for a partition. I want the one that is the most secure.

The method should work with [Windows, Linux], this way I can view the backups on any computer I'm using.

I'm wondering in terms of most secure encryption for a drive partition.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bitlocker is perfectly fine. Veracrypt and LUKS are good alternative. Sounds like you're looking for a personal use case, but in case there others out there looking for an enterprise solution, avoid Winmagic. It's a pain to manage at scale and breaks all the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Best and most secure is highly debateable and depends on your specific threat model.

Bitlocker is industry standard in IT for Windows machines and has support in Linux through dislocker. Its built right into Windows making it the easiest to use there.

Another option is VeraCrypt, which can do disk/partition level encryption on both platforms and can also do encrypted containers within the filesystem.