Re: Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2016 #417

2016-05-03 Thread Thomas D Dial
It's been quite a while since I did an install from scratch and either the prior overwrite option is new since, or I forgot it; the random pattern overwrite choice would be better. The US DoD requires (or did some time ago) multiple overwrites with specified patterns, beginning and ending in

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2016 #417

2016-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Tuesday 03 May 2016 00:38:05 Ralph Sanchez wrote: > Tom-That's what I thought too, but I thought someone said earlier that > during the install w/ encryption, Debian would also zero the disk, or > maybe I'm mistaken. As far as the process if I did what your > suggesting and I was going to do,

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2016 #417

2016-05-02 Thread Ralph Sanchez
Tom-That's what I thought too, but I thought someone said earlier that during the install w/ encryption, Debian would also zero the disk, or maybe I'm mistaken. As far as the process if I did what your suggesting and I was going to do, would it work like this... Boot from USB Live ISO Run choice

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2016 #417

2016-05-02 Thread Tom Dial
Although encryption of the disk (as offered during installation) is a good idea, it protects against loss of the system or disk while powered down. It does not protect against unauthorized access to the running system, and if the threat model includes that, zeroing (or better yet, multiply