[Full-Disclosure] [PAPER] Juggling with packets: floating data storage

[Dave Clendenan]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 04:30:08PM +0100, bugtraq at umtstrial.co.uk wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 October 2003 11:31 pm, Aron Nimzovitch wrote:
> 
> > Show me another method that can delete 6.5 GB a data in a completely
> > unrecoverable manner that quickly.
> 
> Store your data on a crypto-loopback partition, but that requires a 
> passphrase, _and_ a key file containing random data to access it.
> 
> In the event of an "emergency", simply shred -uvz /path/to/keyfile, and 
> reboot.
> Your data will be rendered completely useless.
>

better yet, if you generally have physical access to the machine, keep
a keyfile on a usb keychain.  I mount /home this way with on my
(slackware) laptop, with loop AES.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/loop-aes/

that way if the machine gets stolen they don't have the keyfile.

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