Secure delete with python
John Lenton
john at grulic.org.ar
Tue Sep 7 09:08:45 EDT 2004
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 10:40:07AM +0200, Peter Otten wrote:
>
> > has ever been in. The solution is to write only encrypted data to the
> > drive, and don't store the key on the drive.
>
> As a special case, avoid that the OS writes the key to disk while swapping.
or encrypt the swapfile. In fact, encrypt the disk, then partition it;
this is easily done with the device mapper in linux 2.6...
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