[Gllug] Encription advice appreciated.

[Roger Whittaker]

Usually, when the police kick my door down, what I do is this:

I swallow my IBM removable microdrive before their truncheons make
contact.

[OK - I know it's a serious point.  For what it's worth SuSE allows you to
set up encrypted partitions at install time.]


On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, David Damerell wrote:

> On , 20 Sep 2001, Timothy Coggins wrote:
> >On Wed, 2001-09-19 at 14:53, David Damerell wrote:
> >>Come to think of it, there's little to prevent one just using a
> >>partition encrypted through the loopback interface as one would for a
> >>filesystem.
> >An easier way would be to use a swap file rather than a partition and
> >either have that file encrypted
>
> How would you achieve that?
>
> >or use secure rm to wipe it before shutdown.
>
> Not much good when the police kick your door down.
>
>

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