[fluidcruft]

BitLocker has the advantage of being accepted by my employer and now that XP was banished in favor of Win7 it's available on all of the company computers.

It has the extreme disadvantage that I can't mount my disk on anything except windows. Which is a no-go given that I mostly live in Linux and most of my colleagues do a lot of work with MacOS. We all have Windows machines for the bureaucratic stuff we must do (word documents, excel, various internal web portals that require IE or some sort of ActiveX plugin). The things is: when it comes to closed source companies, Microsoft is one that I am willing to accept that they have sound engineering and release policies. But they refuse to explain how it works, so we can't inter-operate and we have to do something else.

(Which for me means that I use a FIPS certified hardware encrypted USB drive with a built in keypad that you use to enter a pin, but for everyone else it basically means they don't bother and just use stupid unencrypted FAT drives and don't care if they "get caught". Or they try to use the awful Box sync shit IT is currently trying to foist on us)

[tux1968]

You should be able to mount BitLocker volumes under Linux with Fuse:

    https://github.com/Aorimn/dislocker

[bignaj]

Just to add some perspective... for most of the world lack of support for Linux isn't an extreme disadvantage. For most it's not a disadvantage at all. I have a Linux machine and use Linux servers just like you, but welcome to the HN bubble...