Filevault 2 Compatibility

[carltom46]

I have tried enabling Filevault in Mountain Lion 10.8.4 and was not successful. I have researched online and found that this new version of Filevault requires the EFI environment of real Macs. Has there been any progress on this? Is this a planned feature for Chameleon, or does the Clover Bootloader now support this?

 

[smolderas]

No and no...

 

[Going Bald]

I have tried enabling Filevault in Mountain Lion 10.8.4 and was not successful. I have researched online and found that this new version of Filevault requires the EFI environment of real Macs. Has there been any progress on this? Is this a planned feature for Chameleon, or does the Clover Bootloader now support this?

File vault 2 wil work on any data only drive, but will not work on the OS X boot drive. At this time, there is no workaround for this problem.

 

[carltom46]

Thanks for the responses. Has anyone tried encrypting their boot drive with Truecrypt in OSX.

 

[carltom46]

I guess this is the way to secure one's account on a hackintosh: http://frugalcomputing.blogspot.com/2012/09/securing-your-hackintosh.html
If anyone has any other ideas, please post them here.

 

[smolderas]

Just saw this article today... you may find it interesting, if you want to protect your files:
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2009/10/evil-maid-goes-after-truecrypt.html

 

[carltom46]

Just saw this article today... you may find it interesting, if you want to protect your files:
http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.de/2009/10/evil-maid-goes-after-truecrypt.html

Interesting read. I had never heard of a utility like this for cracking encrypted Truecrypt drives. Hopefully Truecrypt can implement the necessary fixes to prevent an attack like this.

 

[the_gael]

File vault 2 wil work on any data only drive, but will not work on the OS X boot drive. At this time, there is no workaround for this problem.

Going Bald, I read this post with interest as I am interested in setting up File Vault 2 to protect a Data only second hard drive, it does also hold user profiles but is not the boot drive. Is this feasible at the current time?

 

[smolderas]

It is possible for any other not boot disks to use filevault2. If you want to encrypt your user folder (like filevault1) on the bootdisk or on any other non-networked disk, there is a solution to that.

If you are interested, I could write down a How-To for activating filevault1 on 10.8.