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How to create a fully-encrypted HFS+ hard drive
Authored by: dbs on Thu, Mar 6 2008 at 7:49AM PST

If you're going for HFS+ in the first place (mac-specific) why not just create an encrypted disk image (sparse, sparsebundle, or not) on the volume? It should have the same level of security, and will just work, but won't be cross platform. Of course if you're using HFS+ then you're probably not that concerned about cross-platform in the first place.