On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 22:13:08 +0100 "Alexander W. Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: >> Judge: "Ok you are to be held in contempt and in jail xyz, until such >> time as you give us the pass phrase to your data" > >Only a matter of the UK at the moment. Bad enough though. > >> Most data overwrite programs take too long-you do not have that time >> when they are knocking down your door. > >That's were strong encryption might work, along with enough entropy to >claim that this is random data, and not just encrypted files. I heard, >but haven't checked myself, that the "truecrypt"-suite offers something >meeting this requirements. > >> A strong magnetic field close to the hard drive will completely destroy >> the data making it impossible to recover. I will also probably fuckup >> the drive mechanism, rendering the drive useless. Someone said consumer >> demagnetizers were not sufficently strong? How do you know this? > >Come on, that's just a idea directly from the game "Uplink". You know >any of those "movie-grade"-demagnetisers? You might want to check >Powerlab's can-crusher[1] though, just for the fun of it ;-) > >> I have not run a tor server, so I do not know the exact requirements. >> Can it be done from a ram drive? > >It could, but you'd need to make sure it doesn't swap/page down to disk, >which would be bad. > On a FreeBSD system, it is trivial to encrypt a swapping/paging area. I simply changed the entry in /etc/fstab from
/dev/ad0s2b none swap sw 0 0 to /dev/ad0s2b.eli none swap sw 0 0 and rebooted. From that moment forward, my swap partition has been encrypted. I'm not a LINUX user, but I would be surprised if there were not some similar facility in LINUX, but I haven't the foggiest notion how one would get Windows XP to encrypt its swapping/paging file or even whether Windows XP has that capability. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************