On 06/08/10 13:00, Romain Dalmaso wrote: > Some systems do. With dm-crypt and cryptsetup (on Linux kernels), you > can encrypt a disk or anything else using a keyfile. Securely deleting > (using for example shred) the keyfile makes useless all the data on > the disk, whether you know the passphrase or not. The same thing must > be possible with TrueCrypt. >
i meant, it would be nice if they had something simpler, like `cryptsetup luksDestroy <volume>`, that erases the LUKS master key, instead of messing around with shred or dd or whatever works for your filesystem. X
