Are there any programs that partition encrypt and I can use dd to copy the encrypted partition to another drive in another system. Basically encryption without relying on hardware.

This post was edited by kasey21 on Sep 27 2019 01:22pm

I dunno what you're referring to when you say dd, but check these out...


https://www.thewindowsclub.com/best-hard-drive-encryption-software-windows

Personally, (if you want to be able to move the encrypted partition, I would use 7zip. It allows 256-AES encryption and password when creating the archive. And 7zip itself is designed for moving data.

dd command. creates a sector by sector copy. so i can create an image of computer using:
dd if=/dev/[partition] of=/external_drive/name.img
and then I can copy that image onto a different using the exact same command.
However, most encryption uses tpm chip or uses ID numbers on motherboard to encrypt. So if you copy the partition to a new system, you won't be able to unlock the encryption because it's different hardware.

The issue is that our images of our computers have proprietary software on them and we need to ship them so want to have something like bitlocker on all of them. But bitlocker uses hardware to encrypt so it's not transferable.

I'm misunderstanding somewhere. You're shipping a computer that has drive encryption but can't use bitlocker because it's attached to that specified hard drive. The transferable part is what's confusing me.

yes most that encrypt drives, but winrar/7zip do not as its not for encrypting drives, just loose files.
once the partition has been saved as an image file it be encrypted by said software and moved anywhere.

I'm making an image file of the windows partition of my laptop. This laptop needs to be encrypted with something like bitlocker. Then this image file will be copied onto hardware identical systems somewhere else. The encryption/bitlocker needs to be able to be unlocked on the new system.

Acronis True Image Home....makes encrypted backups (aka, Windows partition images)