can you have a encrypted hard drive on a mac? or is it just partial encryption?

not sure how this works, but can you have an entire hard drive encrypted and can it be your main hard drive with Mac Os/X on it or is it more of just for data only? i.e. other than base os files.

user27449

Posted 2010-10-05T20:17:06.940

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– sleske – 2013-08-26T11:51:44.037

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PGP Whole Disk Encryption will work on OS X.

Nick

Posted 2010-10-05T20:17:06.940

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is it very slow on a laptop? – user27449 – 2011-02-25T15:20:17.057

Yes, you can. There are two options:

FileVault is built into Mac OS X (since 10.3/Panther). At first you could only encrypt your home directory; since 10.7/Lion you can also encrypt the whole startup volume (Inside Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: File Vault full disk encryption and cloud key storage ).
PGP Whole Disk encryption supports OS X

Note: While TrueCrypt works on Mac OS X, it unfortunately does not support encrypting the system partition.

sleske

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