Right now, I'm creating a large encrypted filesystem (2gig, maybe I'll downsize to 1). I am doing "dd if=/dev/urandom". When this is done, I'll probably use 3DES-ede. Would it help/hurt to, on the mounted fs, do a "dd if=/dev/urandom of=/cryptdisk/freespacewipefile"? Thanks, Ryan BTW: Does anyone know if 2.2 crypto can work under 2.4? _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/